DuPage County Opinion
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Education is the key to a better lifeJan 24, 2015 11:01 pm - Education is the key to a better life Just couldn't pass up the opportunity to congratulate Ralph Martire, Executive Director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accou...
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The Soapbox: Red light cameras and mall improvementsJan 23, 2015 10:00 pm - Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. Some don't. This is Saturday Soapbox, briefly stated commentary from the Daily Herald's editors.
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Trade a Horseshoe for a Partner?Jan 21, 2015 11:01 pm - Trade a Horseshoe for a Partner? It was interesting to read the Jan. 15 front-page news of Springfield's signature sandwich, the Horseshoe: an open-faced sandwich w...
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Insulting others abuses freedomJan 21, 2015 12:01 am - Enjoying freedoms does not mean carte blanche abuse of them. We must apply wisdom in using our freedoms, and Charlie Hebdo's cartoons frequently were nothing less than...
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Providing tuition is not freeJan 21, 2015 12:01 am - Thank you for running the Our View opinion piece concerning the president's proposed free community college tuition proposal. You raised some questions. I have more. Fi...
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Editorial: One suburb's example in the drug abuse fightJan 20, 2015 4:01 am - The fight against youth substance abuse must be a joint battle, and Naperville is one example of a community where leaders have rightfully made that battle a priority. A...
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Free tuition plan just an election ploy?Jan 20, 2015 12:01 am - Believe me I'd be all for paying college tuition for deserving students IF government (city, state or country) wasn't so far in debt and could truly afford to do so. I...
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Is a moral principle involved here?Jan 19, 2015 11:01 pm - Is a moral principle involved here? I'm responding to J.E. Sheldon's letter of Jan. 13, "Businesses can't impose beliefs." In this letter, the writer posits that fo...
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Sticking it to taxpayers twiceJan 19, 2015 11:01 pm - Sticking it to taxpayers twice The president wants to give free college education and so does the mayor of Chicago. Senator Durbin wants to reduce the interest rate...
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Awareness of drug problem importantJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - I appreciate your series on "Heroin in the Suburbs" and most especially the courage of Patty and Kent Perry, their daughter Tracy and granddaughters, Jaida, Mikayla and ...