DuPage County Opinion
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Kane a leader in fiscal stewardshipOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Jim Fuller’s Sept. 22 article, “Kane County taxpayers say assessments too low,” raises a number of important points about the struggle to keep property taxes as low as p...
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Pray for a stop to this downhill slideOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Pray for a stop to this downhill slide For years we have educated our children to believe they were not created for any specific purpose because our origins suppose...
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Family woes never solved by violenceOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Family woes never solved by violence The Sept. 28 headline caught my eye: “Former Wheaton candidate acquitted of domestic battery.” I read with disbelief that Wheat...
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Focus on adjunct quality, not quantityOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - As a way to save costs, community colleges have increasingly hired adjunct instructors. Bargain that they are, part-timers also allow schools to easily fill gaps and exp...
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Change in tax code essential to recoveryOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - This letter is in response to Donald Froelich’s letter suggesting that multimillionaire Warren Buffett should put his money where his mouth is by going ahead and donatin...
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Step up to plate for Nick’s PizzaOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - It has come to my attention that Nick’s Pizza & Pub is in severe financial trouble and may have to close its doors within the next month barring some sort of miracle. Ni...
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Surely there must be a job for everyoneOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Jobs? Stimulus? For the life of me I cannot understand why we attempt to create jobs in phony trickle-down, roundabout ways. The idea that injecting borrowed dollars int...
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Defends townships and work they doOct 04, 2011 11:00 pm - I cannot permit the printing of Edie Phillip's letter on Sept. 13 questioning the purpose of townships without my rebuttal. As a caretaker at my local church for the pas...
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Dold’s vote helps protect air, healthOct 04, 2011 12:00 am - I am so very grateful Rep. Bob Dold stood up for clean air by voting against the TRAIN Act. Amid burgeoning House support for industrial smokestacks over public health, ...
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Sung should be reunited with sonOct 04, 2011 12:00 am - Sung should be reunited with son In following recent articles related to the case of Nunu Sung, I find it concerning that presiding Judge C. Stanley Austin has made...