Letters to the Editor
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Can we afford to ignore capital plan?Mar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - During the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was widely lauded for his investment in infrastructure. While controversial, this economic theory has proved corre...
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Another way to keep geese awayMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - The Geneva Park District Board's battle with geese in local parks replays every year across the Chicago area. (Feb. 19, 2008.) While a short-term solution may be to chas...
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Wood smoke ban about self-interestMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - I couldn't agree more with Valerie Ivanoff's Fence Post letter stating Kenneth Dubinski's proposal to mandate gas fireplaces to replace wood burning ones is dictatorial ...
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Politicians adding to the tax burdenMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Our politicians, both state and federal, seem to worry and talk about the poor people of this country. I have to wonder if they are serious because these are the same pe...
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NAFTA criticism based on falsehoodMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - After listening to senators Clinton and Obama argue the evils of NAFTA, I am appalled. They argue that all our jobs are being lost to China due to NAFTA. NAFTA had absol...
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Kirk's bipartisan work gets resultsMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Mark Kirk has served our district well over the past seven and a half years. Because of his effective leadership, we have more commuter rail service, continued veterans...
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Let's get support for Geneva poolMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - On Wednesday, March 19th at 7 p.m. at Geneva Middle School North, there is a public forum scheduled by the Geneva Community School District 304. The objective of this pu...
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Appreciation for work of city councilMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - I would like to commend the Wheaton City Council for doing the hard work. Addressing the sanitary sewer and storm sewer problem in Wheaton is far from sexy. The council ...
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Science has no say on human dignityMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - A reader recently wrote to complain that the Pope, Benedict XVI, would have us "throw away the key" to a cure for Parkinson's disease, infertility and other ailments, be...
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Dumping Electoral College a bad ideaMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - By all means, get rid of the Electoral College. That way, we only have to hold elections in the large cities. We can let one group elect the leaders for the rest of us....