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Opinion
A new OPRF pool will cost less in the long run
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
Tim Kelly
District 200 is about to take on their largest construction project in almost 50 years — rebuilding of the aquatic facilities at OPRF. The high school pools were built in the 1920s and they are ready for a major restoration. It will be a significant public works project to be sure but the board is facing costs to do maintenance and small capital improvements that are arising every year.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
The window between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the end of February, for me, is the unofficial alpha and omega of...
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
We were part of the 125th Anniversary committee, and recently read that the monies we raised were going to be used to...
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
Let's see now, Berwyn has the Culver's, Capri in the old Wishbone space, Autre Monde, which gets more mentions...
Journal's editorials
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
The nadir of the housing decline is a fine time to consider the necessity of finally strengthening the historic preservation ordinance in River Forest.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 10:00 PM
We have just paid $5 million to make South Marion Street (aka the Pleasant District) as beautiful as bricks and bluestone will allow. And then the village board last week chose not to require landlords there to lease its storefronts to retailers or restaurants? We don't understand.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 10:00 PM
It is back to the drawing board for the Rube Goldberg engineers who are tasked with keeping pigeons from pooping all over the pristine railroad viaduct that connects the two halves of the $10 million newly gilt stretch of Marion Street.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 10:00 PM
A taxpayer has reason to expect decent police services in a crisis, a capable fire-fighting force in an emergency, that the garbage will be collected, that the streets, while not all perfectly smooth, will be, at least, passable.
Letters to the editor
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Columns / One views
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 10:00 PM
Barbara Langer and Virgina Thomas
I asked Dietra Millard, president of the District 200 Board of Education why the high school allows TOPS, a private swimming group affiliated with the YMCA in Oak Park, to pay to use the high school pools on a regular basis all year but declines to extend the same privileges to the general public from both villages, whose property taxes, not TOPS, pay for the maintenance and staffing.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 10:00 PM
Chris Farruggia
Oak Park and River Forest High School has dashed my hopes of being respected as a student through implementation of new rules this year. Students are forced to wear IDs. If caught not wearing IDs, teachers or security guards yell at or chase us until we put it on. In class, teachers demand that IDs be worn, in fear that a supervisor may be spying on them and report their inability to enforce the ID policy.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 10:00 PM
Anan Abu-Taleb
During the height of the holiday season, my brother and I embarked on a journey to see my failing father in the Gaza Strip. After an entire day of travel, we stood in front of an Israeli military checkpoint, the gateway to Gaza, which is but a 15-minute drive from my parents' home.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 10:00 PM
By John Hubbuch
The high school's teachers and the District 200 school board announced agreement on a new two-year contract last week. The contract provides no pay increase in the 2012-2013 school year, and teacher compensation will be limited to step and lane increases the next year.
Ken Trainor
Staff writer
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
Sunday is the annual Oscar extravaganza, an obligatory observation for hopeless film buffs like me. I'm no good at handicapping the awards, though I'm guessing either The Artist or Hugo will pull in Best Picture.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 10:00 PM
Now that the health plan/contraception and Komen Foundation/Planned Parenthood controversies are behind us (more or less), let's step back and take a little deeper look at the birth control issue.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 10:00 PM
Sometimes, I think, people don't think enough. Frequently I think that when I read our online comments (Jim Coughlin being a notable exception). I'm glad our readers care enough to comment, but the regulars do so much emoting, "fact"-spewing, name-calling, sneering and dissing, it seems the only real thought goes into the pseudonym they hide behind.
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 10:00 PM
In my Jan. 4 column [What conservatives stand for, Viewpoints], I summarized my understanding of what conservatives stand for, based on what I've been hearing for the past 30 years.