DuPage County Opinion
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Send self-interested politicians homeAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - No matter what political party you belong to you have to agree that the politically driven fiasco that now holds sway over our country is cause for action. Our elected o...
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U.S. always had ability to pay its creditorsAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - So Standard & Poor’s has decided to downgrade U.S. creditworthiness from AAA to AA+. This is a downgrade to the borrowings of the most secure, most highly traded, most l...
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Responding to trustee’s complaintsAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - In response to Trustee Tim Allen’s Aug. 11 letter to the editor, it is clear that Tim will continue misleading residents and slandering other board members. He will cont...
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Blame the state for U-46 bus woesAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I empathize with the U-46 parents over the new bus routes reported in the Daily Herald where students must walk up to 1½ miles to catch a bus. However, it appears to me ...
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Big spenders come in GOP packages, tooAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I just have to set the record straight when Mr. Pratt of Arlington Heights says that President Obama is spending money like “a drunken sailor.” Please keep in mind the s...
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Uncle Sam not dead, just abusedAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I, too, heard the story of old Uncle Sam that Walt Zlotow related in the Aug. 9 Fence Post. Sam wasn’t dead but he had seen a lot of abuse and it had been getting steadi...
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Media still bowing to Obama administrationAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - Now we have seen the total capitulation of the media to the Obama administration, who has just disgusted me by refusing to enforce the laws of this great country. Wow, h...
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Facts getting in way of writer’s pointAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Facts getting in way of writer’s point A response to Lazlo Stephan’s letter Aug. 11, “Higher taxes on the ‘rich’ is no solution”: “Class warfare” is a subjective te...
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Trickle-up poverty has to stopAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Trickle-up poverty has to stop I’m a retiree who never made more than $50,000 per year and a believer in the tea party principles. Fence Post writer Jean Alberti wa...
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Big disappointment at tollway meetingAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Big disappointment at tollway meeting At the urging of the Daily Herald editorial staff, my husband and I attended Thursday’s Tollway Authority meeting in Wheaton. ...