DuPage County Opinion
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Trust Springfield with more of our money?Jun 05, 2019 1:00 am - In 1913, politicians endeavored to extract Americans' money by legalizing an income tax, rather than living within their means. They promised: "This is only a 1% tax on ...
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America will vote based on the factsJun 04, 2019 1:00 am - I find myself everyday reading some statement/article whether it be in the newspaper, Facebook or in a magazine that gets me a bit riled. The far majority of these artic...
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Our turn for climate changeJun 02, 2019 1:00 am - So now we in the Chicago area experienced our own taste of extreme and dramatic weather Memorial Day weekend. I have never seen such huge hail, and I feared it would bre...
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Memorial Day reflections on warJun 01, 2019 1:00 am - Memorial Day once again brings to mind the folly of war to settle political disputes. This letter writer recalls several schoolteachers who were in the first World War. ...
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Americans are paying the price for Trump's mistakesJun 01, 2019 1:00 am - So everyone understands, I am old school and what was true in our age should still be true today. Our good president has started to bail out the farmers for his shoot-fr...
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Trump's policies good for all AmericansMay 31, 2019 1:00 am - In my last opinion letter that was printed in the Daily Herald, I discussed the disparate impact Democrat policies have had on African Americans. Since that letter, Trum...
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Slow down on potMay 31, 2019 1:00 am - I commend the Daily Herald on its clear and informative opinion page of Sunday, May 19. The public is well served when we are able to read cogent and unemotional views, ...
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Illinois needs reproductive health actMay 31, 2019 1:00 am - "From a teenage lover, to an unwed mother, kept undercover, like some bad dream. While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered, they run like water, through a mountain str...
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Forcing children to be born into life of abuseMay 30, 2019 1:00 am - Pro-Lifers: Think about A.J.; think about the lives involved. Is a nonviable embryo so important that it should be born addicted or drug-laden? Is a nonviable embryo so...
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Citizen activists want to perserve livable worldMay 30, 2019 1:00 am - Thanks for Burt Constable's excellent front-page story "Environmentalists putting pedal, mettle toward climate change" on the Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteers biking t...