DuPage County Opinion
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Roskam shows how Washington's brokenOct 15, 2015 12:00 am - Want to know what's wrong with Washington? Listen to Peter Roskam in your Sept 30 article by Melissa Silverberg. Roskam called for a meeting of the GOP house caucus Tues...
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Gun customers must show mental healthOct 15, 2015 12:00 am - The conservative opposition to Obama's so-called politicization of the Oregon mass shootings is ludicrous. Anyone who doesn't think we need more legal scrutiny of gun sa...
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Bible isn't a textbook on cultureOct 15, 2015 12:00 am - I read with interest the letter in the Oct. 2 edition of the Daily Herald from Rich Lorimer. I realized again how little many people know about the scriptures. The Bible...
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Other polluters must come to tableOct 14, 2015 12:00 am - Barbara Stark urges us to wake up to global warming because of seeing a polar bear so thin that his bones were visible while he was trying to walk on a very thin piece o...
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Leave behind PACs for homeless sheltersOct 14, 2015 12:00 am - Recently, I had occasion to visit Las Vegas for a sporting event. The thing that left the biggest impression was not the hotels, not the night life, not the scenery at n...
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Needed: Common sense gun lawsOct 14, 2015 12:00 am - Now a massacre in a school in Oregon. Here's an easy fact to check out. More children age 14 and under have been killed by guns in this country than all the men and wome...
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Leave use of guns to trained authoritiesOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - I am shocked and appalled by recent calls in the press to arm teachers in light of all the tragic campus shootings. I'm also concerned about calls for the expansion of ...
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Editorial: Dist. 211 should find creative alternatives to transgender planOct 12, 2015 11:00 pm - The practice of high school students changing in the locker room has always been complicated for some students. Whether you feel you're too skinny or overweight or just ...
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A question every citizen should askOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - The next letter you will probably see will be from the NRA telling us guns don't kill people kill. Then they will say these killers have the unrestricted constitutional ...
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Many 'refugees' taking advantage of systemOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - It astonishes me how much misinformation about Syrian refugees is being presented as news in print, radio and television. First, refugees are officially defined as peopl...