DuPage County Opinion
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Election: Consider what our mayors have doneNov 28, 2012 4:00 am - Arlene Mulder will be stepping down next spring as village president of Arlington Heights after a tenure of 2 decades and many more years in public service beyond that. ...
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Higher taxes should be no surpriseNov 28, 2012 3:39 am - Higher taxes should be no surprise As reported in the Daily Herald, the Illinois legislature currently is considering shifting some of the state’s future teacher r...
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Only so much state candy to go aroundNov 28, 2012 3:39 am - Only so much state candy to go around What we have here in Illinois is similar to Halloween. Children ring at the doors on Halloween and are given treats and candy ...
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Here’s some real pension reformNov 28, 2012 3:39 am - Here’s some real pension reform How cute of Gov. Quinn and condescending of him to compare the teachers as a snake, as a means of winning the backing of the people ...
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Keep focus on jobs, fiscal crisisNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - As a new subscriber, reading Susan Estrich’s Nov. 15 column, “The mandate to raise taxes on so-called rich,” gave me a frisson of schadenfreude. She voted for President ...
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Editorial: Hazing culture needs to be excisedNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - Maine West High School has a problem. And we urge school officials to deal with it — openly and without equivocation. That’s easier said than done. School officials and ...
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Didn’t think women would fight back?Nov 27, 2012 3:08 am - Didn’t think women would fight back? Apparently it never occurred to the Republican Party that if they waged a war on women, women would fight back. Daniel Welch Lo...
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Petraeus deserves place in historyNov 27, 2012 3:08 am - Petraeus deserves place in history When the annals of military heroes of this decade is written, it will be the great four-star general, David Petraeus, who was the...
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Here’s why we weren’t offered helpNov 27, 2012 3:08 am - Here’s why we weren’t offered help I was reading with interest the columns written by readers about how we send in help to countries who have disasters, but when we...
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Editorial: The fundamental problems of holding dual officesNov 26, 2012 4:00 am - Although we have differences with some of state Sen. Terry Link’s positions, we decided that his background and leadership merited our endorsement in the election just p...