DuPage County Opinion
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Let’s express ourselves more intelligentlyJan 22, 2014 4:00 am - When I listen to people around me, I wonder what’s happening to the English language. Are we becoming an illiterate nation? So many people seem to have a problem with wo...
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Never give up hope even after lossJan 21, 2014 4:00 am - If you have ever lost someone extremely important to you, you have probably felt like there is no hope. Like there is no reason to still be alive. What’s the point, righ...
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What’s the real story behind village TIF?Jan 20, 2014 4:00 am - The village of Schaumburg wants a new $512 million north Schaumburg TIF to fix alleged “blight.” When the village hired consultant Teska Associates to prepare a TIF eval...
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Let’s pay our politicians lastJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - When I was growing up, I read that the government was going to go broke with all of the reckless spending that was going on, and now Detroit proved the skeptics right! A...
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Front-page decisions missing the markJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Sometimes I scratch my head in bewilderment at which stories make front-page news at the Daily Herald and which stories don’t. Last week’s front-page story on New Jersey...
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Seeing Coleridge in American politicsJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Perhaps Chris Christie should have read Samuel Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” before he decided to run for governor of New Jersey again. Likewise, Richar...
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Hard to figure how companies payJan 19, 2014 3:40 am - Hard to figure how companies pay How is it that many bigger companies can afford to pay their high-level executives with obscenely large compensation packages — whi...
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Gun range bad idea for BloomingdaleJan 19, 2014 3:40 am - Gun range bad idea for Bloomingdale Julian Perez wants to build a shooting range in the empty Abbott building on Circle just north of Lake Street in Bloomingdale. T...
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Just do as you’re told and get the flu shotJan 18, 2014 4:00 am - The Jan. 10 front-page headline on the flu vaccine story is typical of the medical establishment and the media that blindly follow them: “Just get the shot.” Don’t do yo...
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The SoapboxJan 18, 2014 4:00 am - Missed opportunity: Lori Price, Indian Prairie Unit District 204 board president, says the number of applicants for the superintendent’s post being vacated by Kathy Birk...