DuPage County Opinion
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Editorial: Fill the video gambling licensing gap quicklyJan 23, 2014 8:55 am - Illinois residents have no more stomach for news about crooked dealings, so lawmakers’ refusal last week to close loopholes in the way video gambling licenses are handle...
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Clintons show it’s OK to lieJan 23, 2014 4:00 am - I never cease to be amazed at the support for Hillary Clinton for president. She is a professional liar who has ridden Bill’s coattails and never accomplished anything o...
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Reasonable opinions needed on jobless benefitsJan 22, 2014 4:00 am - Over the last couple of days two letters have displayed a remarkable level of idiocy in order to justify not passing social legislation. Both were regarding extension of...
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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...