DuPage County Opinion
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Candidates need you to sign petitionsOct 31, 2011 5:00 am - For Illinois residents, Sept. 6 — the first day political candidates begin circulating petitions — marked the start of the 2012 campaign season. Candidates will be knock...
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Target distracted driving among teensOct 31, 2011 5:00 am - Oct. 16-22 marked National Teen Safe Driving Week. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 5,474 people were killed on U.S. roadways and an estimated 448,000...
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Skunks undeserving of ‘nuisance’ labelOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Skunks undeserving of ‘nuisance’ label Skunks serve a purpose. They eat grubs. If you eliminate the skunks, you will see more Japanese beetles destroy your lovely g...
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Find ways to reward the generousOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Greed, in our world culture, affects and infects us both passively and actively. Greed is the primary cause of war, abortion, murder motivated by prejudice, and it is es...
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Most investors don’t get rich on stocksOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - This is in response to David Hrdlicka’s Sept. 28 letter concerning “wealthy people living off the fat of the land” when paying only 15 percent capital gains tax. Where d...
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Sharing information key to safer schoolsOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - On the surface, it appears Illinois school districts are doing what they should when it comes to cooperation between administrators and local police agencies. After all,...
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Thanks to Roskam for urging FDA to actionOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Thanks to Roskam for urging FDA to action Recently, I had the chance to meet with Congressman Peter Roskam to talk about the challenges facing people with Type 1 di...
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‘Smarter’ ComEd bills are comingOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - ‘Smarter’ ComEd bills are coming I must admit that I was not pleased that the Illinois legislature gave ComEd its rate hike over the governor’s veto. It seemed to m...
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How our schools excel while failing the examOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Our children’s schools are failing. More so than ever. That’s the message being conveyed if you look strictly at the data of the 2011 report card for all schools in Illi...
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Who’d have thought we’d have a dictator?Oct 30, 2011 5:00 am - In my 84 years, I never believed I would see a man with Barack Obama’s background elected president of the United States of America. What do we the people know about him...