Daily Herald opinion: Impressive, meaningful generosity: Support for DuPage animal shelter expansion will benefit the county

This Daily Herald editorial applauds the effort that went into making an expansion of the DuPage County Animal Services shelter a reality.

Daily Herald opinion: The role of Congress: Nation’s lawmakers must step up to their constitutional duty to be decision makers on war

Daily Herald opinion: Regardless of the merits of attacking Iran, the decision was made without congressional approval, deepening political rifts and raising questions about authoritarianism.

Daily Herald opinion: The legislative shell game: GOP lawsuit draws attention to a practice that threatens faith in government

Daily Herald opinion: For too long, a legislative ‘bait and switch’ tool has been used to pass controversial or complicated legislation without the transparency demanded by the Illinois Constitution. A new lawsuit by Republicans is important for raising the public’s awareness of the practice.

Limit flags on public buildings

On June 5, the Daily Herald published a story about Mount Prospect officials wisely limiting the flags allowed on village flagpoles. Only the United States, State of Illi...

Take time to learn cause of plane crash

I was deeply pained and shocked by the crash of Air India flight 171 from Ahmedabad, India to London Gatwick Airport in Britain. As a person of Indian origin who has flow...

War not the answer

As a young boy, I remember hearing over the radio of the attack on Pearl Harbor at that very hour, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7, 1941. “A date that will live in infamy,” FDR ...

Mired in infighting, Democrats can't find their way

Syndicated columnist Byron York:

When ‘anything goes’ extends to a president’s public language

It is, of course, far more consequential to consider issues surrounding President Trump’s authorization of dropping actual bombs on another country than to wring one’s ha...

Guest columnist Martha Diaz Aszkenazy: The US Postal Service faces collapse due to failed policies, so the new Postmaster General has a tough job ahead. Congress must act now to save the agency.