DuPage County Opinion
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Obama’s re-election hardly a mandateDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - I have seen many people saying that by being re-elected, the president was given a “mandate” to implement his radical socialist policies. Nothing could be farther from t...
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Congress needs to kick the spending habitDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - When my children were growing up I used to have to tell them often there was no money tree growing in our backyard. Yet our state and federal governments act like there ...
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Start over with a rebuilt schoolDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - With so many people grieving for the loss of 26 lives in Newtown, Conn., it seems like there would be a way to raise enough money to tear down Sandy Hook Elementary and ...
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Government power grab: Gun controlDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - What an extremely sad, horrible event in Newtown, Conn. Twenty schoolchildren and seven adults murdered by a deranged gunman. Even sadder, President Obama has immediatel...
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Money in stocks doesn’t help economyDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - Obviously, my son (Fence Post, Dec. 2) and I have very different ideas about the political and economic policies that are needed to push this country back onto a positiv...
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No reason to have assault weaponsDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - There will always be troubled children and adults who need as much extra help as we can provide, and we can probably do a better job as a society and community to help t...
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Does anyone get the Constitution?Dec 26, 2012 4:00 am - Howard Huber, in the Dec. 15 Fence Post, states, among other things, that Congress could “reverse the law that limits the president to two terms.” Is Mr. Huber unaware o...
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Editorial: The re-emerging joy of big ideasDec 24, 2012 4:00 am - Here’s a bit of positive news to reflect on this Christmas Eve morning: Development is returning to the vernacular of community planners in the suburbs. Of course, it’s ...
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Some Latinos didn’t fall for race baitingDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - Just finished reading a truly delusional article by Ruben Navarro (Fence Post, Nov. 21), replete with your typical inane anti-immigration straw man arguments concerning ...
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Leadership Team, people behind it, simply inspiringDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - How about some words on a topic that might be inspirational as we close in on the Christmas holiday? For more than a decade, the Daily Herald has formally honored our hi...