Letters to the Editor
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Real-life scenarios for 2024 votersJan 01, 2024 8:49 am - Real life is not about Zombies. Real life is about having your basic needs met. Real life is having a paycheck to cover basic needs, housing, food, car expenses, and medi...
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Council dismisses voters on sanctuary statusDec 31, 2023 2:45 am - The Chicago City Council’s vote on the sanctuary city ordinance has been treated like a vote on whether Chicago should continue its sanctuary city status. The fact, howev...
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Israel has right to defend its peopleDec 31, 2023 1:45 am - To letter writer Mary Warren. Israel is a democratic country that defends its people. It has to destroy Hamas by any means necessary. After the horrific attack Hamas took...
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Toward equity in Gaza war coverageDec 30, 2023 3:00 am - I’ve noticed in the past several weeks of the DH/AP’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza that all of the pictures (and accompanying narratives) show the terri...
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Approve only the true asylum seekersDec 30, 2023 1:45 am - In 1939, Russia invaded Poland and took everything my mother’s family had, their home, land and belongings/money. Yes, her family became true asylum seekers, and it took ...
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Games played on property valuationsDec 30, 2023 1:45 am - On Dec. 1, I paid my second Cook County real estate tax bill installment. I still cannot believe my tax went up 67%. In a DH Nov. 10 article “How assessments, appeals aff...
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Are Palestinians blameless?Dec 30, 2023 1:30 am - Why hasn’t the Democratic Party countered the criticism that innocent Palestinians were merely blameless bystanders while Hamas built its network of tunnels that extend m...
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Enough is enough on zoo projectDec 30, 2023 1:00 am - The Wheaton Park District Cosley Zoo Expansion Project is not a “Not In My Back Yard” issue for residents in Wheaton. It is a Wheaton Park District run-away-spending plan...
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Park district ignores constituentsDec 29, 2023 9:00 am - Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil famously said, “All politics is local.” The more local the politics, the more influence voters should have on governmental bodies. ...
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Jogging carolersDec 29, 2023 8:56 am - I'm hoping to find out what group I witnessed singing and running along the Fox River about two weeks ago. I walk there almost every day in Geneva just north of Fabian Pa...