Kane County Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage CountyJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - A sterling example Bill Simmons, DuPage County's first black police officer and a trailblazer in many other areas, retired Friday after almost 40 years in law enforcemen...
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Hey, it's Take Your Dog's Picture, Bring it to Work DayJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I'll admit it: I didn't really think it'd be a good idea to observe "Take Your Dog to Work Day" at the Daily Herald today. When I was asking people in other offices for ...
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School, military too cozyJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently the Daily Herald carried a disturbing picture titled "Not letting her quit." The picture shows the back of a teenage girl with shoulders rolled and body curled ...
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Bush foreign policy failed in many waysJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - If George W. Bush had visited Iraq and talked to Saddam Hussein, he might have agreed with United Nations inspectors who concluded "there were no weapons of mass destruc...
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Wright merely asks us to improve U.S.Jun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - For those folks who demonize Rev. Wright for his comments, without actually researching the context of his speech, I want to be sure you know what he was talking about a...
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In defense of Lou DobbsJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing this letter relating to an article written by Ruben Navarrette appearing May 29. Navarrette accuses Lou Dobbs of CNN saying crude things that give the debat...
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How the pop star got top billing over the journalistJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - On this hand, a respected journalist; on that, a world-renowned music star. To me, the choice of which one people would most want to read about was a virtual no-brainer...
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East Dundee board supported flagJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - It isn't often that residents of a village write and pat their village boards on the back and say "Thanks." I have often been very critical of my village board, and I st...
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Pols must address global warmingJun 17, 2008 11:00 pm - With Al Gore's endorsement of Barack Obama, I'm pleased to see politicians talking about global warming. For too long, our politicians have been sitting on their hands ...
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Criticism hits close to homeJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Doesn't it seem a bit odd that President Bush criticized terrorist appeasers (without mentioning names) and Obama immediately rose to defend himself from the criticism? ...