Our View Cut bottled water from city budgets
Over the past decade, the city of Aurora spent $129,480.99 on bottled water. While that's just a drop in the bucket when it comes to the city budget, it's no minor expense to most of us.

County: How can we aid extension services?
Illinois' rural and farming community is continuing its battle to keep the University of Illinois extension -- and its popular 4-H youth program -- alive.

Our View SC North handles threat correctly
We don't envy school administrators who have to make decisions about responding to vague threats of violence based on limited information. But the number of bogus references to planned school shootings and bombings has reached epidemic proportions, with a high school or college somewhere in the Chicago area seemingly shutting down every day.

Veteran: Why protest war at local memorial?
The war in Iraq has divided Americans like nothing else since the war in Vietnam.

Voters deserve positive election
Apparently Jim Oberweis finally got the message. If he really intends to stay positive in his fall congressional campaign and have "a serious and respectful discussion of issues that are important to people in the 14th Congressional District," as he says, then we look forward to his rematch with Bill Foster.

Letters to the Editor

Our View Kane needs help in fight vs. obesity
The numbers should be startling, even as we get used to hearing reports about Americans' unhealthy lifestyles. Nearly 9 million children nationwide are considered obese, including one in five school-aged children in Illinois.