DuPage County Opinion
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Pension solution needs careful thoughtMay 15, 2013 5:00 am - With respect to your editorial Sunday on Illinois’ pension problem, one thing is very clear: There is a huge distrust in this state of our legislators in Springfield. To...
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Huge price to be cops of the worldMay 15, 2013 4:00 am - No more Mr. Nice Guy. I'm going to say it. People like Richard Cohen need to give up his citizenship and move to Isreal or Palestine or Egypt. Regarding his May 1 colum...
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Fishermen must clean up their actMay 15, 2013 4:00 am - Now that the weather is warming up and summer vacation is right around the corner, those fishing poles are being put to use again. Along with fishing comes garbage being...
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Congress should learn to governMay 15, 2013 4:00 am - In 1787, when our Constitution was written, Edmund Randolph's seventh proposal was for our president to be elected by Congress for one seven-year term and would be remov...
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Guns have a place while we’re here on EarthMay 14, 2013 5:00 am - In response to Tom McGovern, who wrote to the Daily Herald on May 3 that the gun lobby should look elsewhere because “there are no guns in heaven”: That’s true, Tom. Bec...
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City is mishandling ash borer situationMay 13, 2013 5:00 am - I have read articles in your newspaper about what Mount Prospect is doing to protect their ash trees, such as hosting a seminar to learn how to protect them. Now Des Pla...
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Be thoughtful on whom to supportMay 13, 2013 5:00 am - Be thoughtful on whom to support Before we rush to support 11 million illegal immigrants, how about making sure our vets are receiving the care they are entitled to...
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State must clean up its own act as wellMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - Thanks the Daily Herald and Reboot Illinois for hosting the April 24 Illinois pension forum; and thanks too for soliciting my reaction to the session. While interesting,...
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Problem creators now the problem solversMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - A bit of irony for readers of the Daily Herald: The same group of legislators who are in charge of fixing the pension systems are the same ones who helped destroy those ...
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Internet sales tax bill has little valueMay 12, 2013 4:40 am - Internet sales tax bill has little value It is obvious that Democratic Illinois Senator Dick Durbin and the other Senators who voted for the Internet sales tax neve...