Letters to the Editor
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Evidence-based funding not keeping upSep 10, 2025 9:30 am - In 2018, our legislators came up with a new funding plan for K-12 schools called evidence-based funding. The plan gave an additional $350 million, called new money, to sc...
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Untrue rantsSep 10, 2025 9:30 am - It is extremely easy to recap Matt Poprocki's column for the next year: “High taxes and excessive regulation.” My first impression for Mr. Poprocki is to move out of the ...
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Former councilman is best choice for vacancySep 10, 2025 9:29 am - Because of Allison Longenbaugh’s resignation from Naperville City Council, the remaining members of the City Council will soon meet in a closed door, unrecorded meeting t...
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Protect local historical treasuresSep 10, 2025 9:28 am - Instead of the all too frequent stories about historic buildings being demolished, I would hope to see more people using common sense to save important historic buildings...
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Election Day holiday?Sep 05, 2025 6:01 am - With the Republicans wanting to end mail-in voting despite it having been around for over a century under the name “absentee ballots,” why don't they try making Election ...
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Minnesota shooting another wakeup callSep 05, 2025 6:00 am - The tragic shooting of children and other worshippers praying in a church at a Catholic school by a depressed, hateful trans female armed with weapons with hate messages ...
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All we need is will to help climateSep 04, 2025 9:03 am - It’s been quite a summer: near-record heat waves beginning in June, smoke-filled skies from the Canadian wildfires, flash flooding brought on by extreme rain events. And ...
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What don’t they get?Sep 04, 2025 9:03 am - I found Mr. Slusher’s column regarding the governor’s statement about reporting on the National Guard issue in Chicago somewhat refreshing. Admitting that news and opini...
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Will we stop a dangerous precedent?Sep 02, 2025 12:46 pm - By federalizing Washington, D.C., police, activating the National Guard and bulldozing homeless encampments with just a day’s notice, Trump has flexed a new kind of presi...
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Ironic firingSep 02, 2025 12:46 pm - Isn’t it interesting that our president is trying to fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Didn’t a jury convict him on 34 felony counts for doing almost the same t...