DuPage County Opinion
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Meningitis outbreak not Tea Party’s faultDec 13, 2012 3:40 am - Ah, the Tea Party did it again. The FDA, short of funding, was not able to shut down a company after 460 cases of fungal meningitis were reported. If the FDA had been pr...
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Editorial: Key lesson of scandals: Hazing is never acceptableDec 12, 2012 8:45 am - As a brief history of hazing examples published in Monday’s Daily Herald shows, incidents of hazing like those at Maine West and Hoffman Estates high schools are neither...
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Happy with your endorsement?Dec 12, 2012 3:21 am - Happy with your endorsement? While I was shocked at your endorsement Mitt Romney for president (whatever happened to “character counts”?), I was absolutely stunned ...
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Pols need some ‘skin in the game’Dec 12, 2012 3:21 am - Pols need some ‘skin in the game’ “Skin in the game” is a phrase I have heard several times with respect to the current public employee pension underfunding in Illi...
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Quite simply, county board job is simpleDec 12, 2012 3:21 am - Quite simply, county board job is simple Does it matter who is the messenger? In 1787 our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution and they gave us a republic. In a ...
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Editorial: Plan wisely for tablet use in schoolsDec 11, 2012 4:00 am - School-issued tablets, notebooks and other digital devices are filling the backpacks of thousands of suburban students, and it’s a trend not likely to slow. “There’s no ...
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Time to rethink parking at ECCDec 11, 2012 4:00 am - The parking lot at Elgin Community College needs to be improved. Students speed through it recklessly, traffic gets backed up because there are only a few exits, and stu...
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Following a tradition of Illinois politicsDec 11, 2012 3:05 am - Following a tradition of Illinois politics Imagine that we haven’t paid some of our bills for a long time, perhaps our mortgage or rent, our taxes and insurance pol...
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Another explanation for Fast and FuriousDec 11, 2012 3:05 am - Another explanation for Fast and Furious I had heard the fairy tale equating Operation Fast and Furious to President Obama’s supposed efforts to undermine the Secon...
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Be consistent in whom you supportDec 09, 2012 4:00 am - In his letter supporting homosexual practices (“It’s un-Christian to discriminate,” Nov. 30), Louis Guagenti argued that Mr. Jim Finnegan “discriminates against more cit...