DuPage County Opinion
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Editorial: Right to start early on campus smoking banNov 24, 2014 10:00 pm - Watching young people light up a cigarette and take a long drag makes us wonder how they can ignore the dangers of smoking. The message is certainly clear, from the warn...
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Progress not reaching some important placesNov 24, 2014 4:01 am - The Philae Lander touched down on a 2½-mile-wide comet after a 10-year journey through space. What a great achievement. Back on Earth we are still putting profits before...
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Column sparked memories of past serviceNov 24, 2014 4:01 am - Michael Gerson's Oct. 28 column on the L'Arche program for the disabled was a very touching piece that brought to mind the years I spent working with Spred, an agency of...
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Retired Oakton teachers have much to offerNov 23, 2014 4:01 am - Oakton Community College in Des Plaines has just announced that it will not rehire retired teachers who have come back to teach one or two courses a term. This came abou...
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The true role of an 'investor'Nov 22, 2014 11:01 pm - The true role of an 'investor' The media uses Wall Street and investor as if they were the same. These are not investors but greedy stockbrokers, investment funds, ...
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The SoapboxNov 22, 2014 4:01 am - Scrape it off: A Palatine High School cross country runner was seriously hurt this week when a car hit him, and Palatine police cited the driver for failure to yiel...
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Obamacare came to us through deceptionNov 22, 2014 4:00 am - The Nov. 14 story in the Daily Herald echoes the reality of the five videos, dating to 2011, in which Jonathan Gruber, the major architect of the Affordable care Act, or...
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Who are the state's real big spenders?Nov 20, 2014 11:01 pm - Who are the state's real big spenders? If we are to believe a letter-writer from Lombard, and Democrat intellectuals in general, the editors were "bought" on the th...
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DuPage GOP takes credit for Dem ideaNov 19, 2014 11:01 pm - Springfield legislators can take a lesson or two from the DuPage Republicans in how to take advantage of an issue raised by one of their opponents. The Republicans on th...
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Retreat from ads starts with a bookNov 19, 2014 4:00 am - After months of campaign ads, they finally stopped on Nov. 3. Is there really a need to have started Black Friday ads on Nov. 4? I think I will just read books until Jan...