DuPage County Opinion
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Pancreatic cancer bill needs supportSep 29, 2011 5:00 am - With a five-year survival rate of just 6 percent, pancreatic cancer has the lowest relative survival rate of all the cancers tracked by the American Cancer Society and t...
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Thanks for helping end hunger, literallySep 29, 2011 5:00 am - On behalf of everyone at Literacy DuPage and Loaves & Fishes, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Mayors Michael Gresk and George Pradel, Wheaton and Naperv...
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If we build it we will thriveSep 29, 2011 5:00 am - I found four Fence Post letters recently in the Daily Herald — the authors all said the GOP is only fighting the president on job creation. The same type of letters come...
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OCD in our midst, often unrecognizedSep 28, 2011 4:00 am - In an average elementary school there are likely five children suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In a medium to large high school, there are typically ...
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What else is one to think?Sep 28, 2011 4:00 am - In reference to “Don’t Blame Religion for Terrorism,” Sept. 24, if a terrorist is a Muslim and he cries Allahu Akhbar before committing a terrorist act, what else is one...
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Lauzen might make sense of tax snafuSep 28, 2011 4:00 am - The assessment process in Rutland Township in Kane County continues to be a joke. The reason is the wrong people in the wrong position, starting with Kane County Board C...
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What about the CL South kicker?Sep 28, 2011 4:00 am - How could you write a column about high school football kickers and not mention Brad Walovitch of Crystal Lake South? Kicking a 51-yarder with six seconds left in a tie ...
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Teachers union or education problem?Sep 28, 2011 4:00 am - On Sept. 14, I attended a community forum that the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 89 held on its finances. The presentation the district made at this forum, of course, s...
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Fairness needed in tax codesSep 28, 2011 4:00 am - The GOP political leaders responded to President Obama’s revenue proposal by calling it class warfare. They have got to be kidding. I recently read that 25 of the highes...
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Stop the pettiness in CongressSep 28, 2011 4:00 am - I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am thoroughly fed up with the adversarial attitude in the Congress. It seems that there was less animosity and division during ...