DuPage County Opinion
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Mother’s Day is for stepmothers, tooMay 26, 2012 5:00 am - Regarding Ken Potts’ column on stepmothers getting their own day like Mother’s Day: Please, please, please don’t suggest a separate day for stepmothers. There shouldn’t ...
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Gun control hardly a success in GermanyMay 26, 2012 5:00 am - “This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world ...
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Say no to Medicaid reform amendmentsMay 26, 2012 4:40 am - To cover a projected $2.7 billion increase in Medicaid program expenses for fiscal year 2013 that starts July 1, the Senate is proposing a Medicaid Reform bill SB 2840 i...
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Pension system can’t be viableMay 26, 2012 4:40 am - State pensions, which are being pushed back to the local level on schools, police and firemen, is all over the news these days. But in my opinion legislators do not seem...
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Stop entitlements; right financial shipMay 26, 2012 4:40 am - “Students for fiscal responsibility” offered a very good example of our government gone wild with spending the evening of May 16 at the Arcada Theater in downtown St. Ch...
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Obama’s big step to fight Alzheimer’sMay 26, 2012 4:40 am - I’ve had to watch as loved ones with Alzheimer’s fade away and lose their memory, sense of self, and control over their bodily functions. Throughout, they seem frightene...
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Larson: Welcome to Boomer baseballMay 25, 2012 10:38 am - When I was a kid in Chicago, playing baseball in the vacant lot across from my house, (in my neighborhood we called it the prairie) there would come a time in midsummer ...
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Schools grateful for work of SCARCE
May 25, 2012 10:38 am - At a time when education funds are being cut to the bone, SCARCE (School & Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education) is providing valuable service to ... -
Elk Grove Village can lead by exampleMay 25, 2012 10:38 am - I applaud the mayor and city council for holding the line on raising our water and sewage fees until they had no choice. I will now do my share and pay the additional fe...
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Fecarotta fires back at township boardMay 25, 2012 10:38 am - Recently the Schaumburg Township supervisor and board sent a letter to Neighbor Fencepost (April 23), trying to justify the decision of eliminating Spectrum as a good fi...