DuPage County Opinion
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Where was GOP after Sept. 11?Nov 02, 2015 12:00 am - I find it fascinating that the Republicans are conducting a witch hunt on Hillary for failing to protect the four Americans killed in Benghazi alleging that she delibera...
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Cut prison crowding with jobs halfway housesNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - During the president's speech to reform the criminal justice system, he referred to our prison population as the highest in the industrialized world but said nothing abo...
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Dist. 211 puts safety above political correctnessNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - I'm a graduate of Schaumburg High School and a Washington, D.C.,-based attorney who works and writes about education law. I have written law review articles on Title IX ...
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We need to call things what they areNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - I've been troubled by how the terms illegal and undocumented have been interchanged recently in news stories. It seems as if the term illegal is only used when someone ...
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'Clean Slate' hasn't met its promisesNov 01, 2015 12:00 am - Kathy Hamilton and her so-called "Clean Slate" cohorts Deanne Mazzochi, Frank Napolitano and Charles Bernstein took over the College of DuPage Board of Trustees with pro...
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Don't like cars? Just ban them.Nov 01, 2015 12:00 am - As I understand it, the anti-gun crowd does not want to own a firearm so they believe that if there is something they don't like then it should be banned. Well, I don't ...
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Drones won't knock airplanes out of skyOct 31, 2015 1:00 am - I am a drone owner with five models and three years experience. I am also an Air Force veteran. Most of the drones on the market today are hobbyist style models and fall...
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Fight climate change with carbon feeOct 31, 2015 12:00 am - The article, "Study finds the warmer it gets, the more world economy hurts" (Oct. 22), reported on a study that posits that there is a temperature "sweet spot" for produ...
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Indigestion can be serious at age 86Oct 31, 2015 12:00 am - Having ingested an inordinate amount of white lead, benzene, cigarettes, pipe tobacco and stale c-rations in my 86 years, I do appreciate the warning about eating hot do...
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National priority: Defeat cancerOct 30, 2015 12:00 am - Recently, I traveled to Washington, D.C. with more than 750 of my fellow American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteers from across the country to urge Congres...