Kane County Opinion
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U-46 students need more time in gymDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - In order to prevent the rise of child obesity, physical education should be a mandatory class for 45 minutes each day in U-46 schools. Physical education will improve st...
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Public schools don't teach atheismDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Public schools are not atheistic as Teri Paulson believes (Fence Post, Dec. 3) but are meant to be academic institutions that represent the best scientific and humanisti...
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Soapbox: Bridge of sighsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Batavia's downtown bridge won't be completed by Dec. 14. It might not even be done in January if the weather is too cold. Worse yet, the westbound lanes that are complet...
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Soapbox: Ready, set, goDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Holiday shoppers around Algonquin, Lake in the Hills and Huntley will no doubt think Santa arrived several weeks early when officials open a long-awaited four-lane stret...
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Gobbledygook letter IDs the big problemDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for publishing the Nov. 26 letter from an ex-school principal that made it obvious to all why our children are doing poorly in...
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Soapbox: On unsafe groundDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - O'Hare may have a leg up in the safety game thanks to a new ground radar system, one of only 10 in the nation, but a scathing U.S. General Accounting Office report to Co...
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Repairing Iraq now our national dutyDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - William Parrot's Nov. 24 letter misleads us to the ideas that bipartisan intelligence got us into the Iraq war and prayer will return our soldiers. It was fraudulent int...
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Soapbox: From interest-free to freeDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The deal the city of Naperville has reached with outgoing City Manager Peter Burchard seems unusual even for the private sector, where CEOs who are fired often get gener...
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Taxes should go for safer roads, bridgesDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Federal road tax funds should not be cut back. These are needed to fund the maintenance of 75,000 United States bridges and infrastructures. Failure to do so could resul...
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Nursing program needs expansionDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Elgin Community College (ECC) currently accepts only 80 qualified students in the nursing program. Nursing administration ranks the students depending on their National ...