DuPage County Opinion
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Politicians providing fiction, not fact on LongmeadowSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - Algonquin Village President John Schmitt has gone to great lengths to put a positive spin on the Longmeadow highway and bridge project. This four-lane 50 mph highway wo...
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Reporter's murder a vicious hate crimeSep 02, 2015 12:00 am - The murder on live TV in Virginia of reporter Allison Parker, a white woman, and cameraman Adam Ward, a white male, by Vester Flanagan, a black man, was a vicious hate c...
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Bill is just more political gamesSep 01, 2015 1:00 am - When the legislature returns this week, the House will take a vote to pass Senate Bill 1229. As you know, this would override the governor's veto of a previous bill th...
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Time for clean air and clean jobsSep 01, 2015 1:00 am - This month. the President finalized the first-ever carbon standards for existing power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency's rule known as the Clean Power Plan i...
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An act of courage, leadershipAug 31, 2015 1:00 am - Fortunately for those on the train traveling to Paris, there were three brave Americans on board. These American heroes stopped the Moroccan terrorist by not leading fro...
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Can prisoners help prevent forest fires?Aug 30, 2015 1:00 am - While watching the news regarding the forest fires out West, I couldn't help but wonder if it would help if all the dry underbrush had been cleared before the fires star...
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Common sense absent in some lawsAug 30, 2015 12:00 am - The Supreme Court does not recognize an unborn child as a human life and it's a woman's right to make this decision. I completely disagree, and not only from a religious...
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Soldiers forgotten amid criminal newsAug 30, 2015 12:00 am - Something is really wrong in this country. When a woman who died in jail can get a street named in her honor yet a soldier dies for his country defending your freedoms a...
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Forgiving student debt causes new woesAug 30, 2015 12:00 am - Obamacare has failed on another front. To offset the costs of implementing Obamacare the feds took over the student loan industry in 2010. In essence the feds took profi...
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Carbon tax would just be passe onAug 29, 2015 1:00 am - On Aug. 21, Deni Matthews wrote about putting a price on cabon-based fuels. She cited a firm called Regional Economics Models Inc. They are nothing but a pie-in-the-sky ...