DuPage County Opinion
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COD agreement is just 'cleanup'Jul 17, 2015 1:00 am - Regarding your July 12 story titled "COD faculty will drop grievances to get raises for 5 professors," your reporter missed the two most important points. The current bo...
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Make boards accountable for pension abusesJul 17, 2015 1:00 am - With regard to the Illinois Association of Park Districts' pension abuse case, what do we as taxpayers have to do to stop this madness in the public sector? Is blatant ...
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Contradictions on urban violenceJul 17, 2015 1:00 am - If black lives matter, why are Al Sharpton and others like him not protesting the violence in Chicago? Apparently, black people killing black people is not a worthy caus...
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Parenting secret to race 'privilege'Jul 16, 2015 1:00 am - When President Obama was elected president I expected our country to keep growing for the better in race relations. We have come a long way and now an African American w...
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Loophole supreme court can live withJul 15, 2015 1:00 am - Marriage equality as defined by the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision could end inheritance taxes and also worsen economic inequality. Case in point: A rich ...
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Editorial: Schaumburg's proposed drone law appropriately restrainedJul 14, 2015 11:00 pm - What's the biggest risk from the kinds of remote-controlled civilian drones that increasingly dot the suburban airspace? That they'll peer in your window, invading your ...
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County can keep improving without harmful sales taxJul 14, 2015 1:00 am - We've had this debate before, and my opinion hasn't changed since our last go-round under Todd Stroger with raising the sales tax on the hardworking taxpayers of Cook Co...
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Editorial: Playing it smart at summer schoolJul 13, 2015 11:00 pm - It's July 17, the temperature is north of 80. Your friends are at the pool, kicking back and getting nothing done. Or working a minimum-wage job to keep busy before scho...
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All have contributed to our countryJul 13, 2015 1:00 am - In view of the day we celebrate our independence and remember the massacre of nine black churchgoers by a white supremacist recently, we Americans should remember the fo...
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Hospital mission threatened by cutsJul 13, 2015 1:00 am - In 1902, The Sisters of the Sacred Heart arrived in Elgin with a clear mission: to provide compassionate health care for the most vulnerable citizens - the poor and the ...