EDITORIAL
THE ISSUE
The Village Board reversed a recent decision by amending the fire code to allow smoking shelters outside bars and restaurants.
OUR VIEW
Supporting local merchants is important, but the back-peddling on this issue doesn’t make sense.
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YOUR VIEW
In addition to more-frequent local editorials, our expanded opinions coverage features a forum seeking your take on a key issue being talked about around town. Here's the current topic:

The Pace Suburban Bus Co. recently held a public hearing at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn to discuss potential cuts to about 50 routes in the Chicago area to eliminate a $6 million budget deficit. One of the services that may be cut is Route 711, the Wheaton-Carol Stream-Stratford Square route. How would the loss of this route impact your life?

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The body of a 23-year-old Carol Stream resident was found hanging from a tree in Community Park Thursday morning, while a bus load of District 41 students were a mere 100 feet away.

The DuPage County Health Department will offer free HIV screenings from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 14 at Wheaton's St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 515 S. Wheaton Ave.

Seeing how polarizing the debate on health care reform has been this past year among Americans, it’s odd to find common ground with four House members whose political ideologies run the gamut. It’s not that all statements say the same thing, but somehow each contains sentiments with which I agree.

Jerry Moore, opinions editor for Suburban Life Publications, will appear at 8 a.m. Wednesday on Ray Hanania's radio program on WJJG AM 1530 in Elmhurst. Tune in or listen live on Hanania's Web site, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Aaron Nagel was a linebacker at Notre Dame, one of college football’s Holy Grails, but he wasn’t happy. The Lemont graduate did not like the Fighting Irish’s coaches. They weren’t the kind of people he thought they would be back when he committed to play football there. He wanted something different. That’s when he rediscovered his youth.