Opinion Stories from February 22, 2011 (Change date)
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Congress, address nuclear safetyFeb 23, 2011 4:31 pm - It's important for Congress to fully fund nuclear nonproliferation programs that have been successful in keeping Americans safe. Experts agree terrorists obtaining and u...
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Be evenhanded on mosque issueFeb 23, 2011 4:29 pm - I am writing in response to Robert Elliot's Feb. 17 letter, “Here's a solution to mosque debate.” Mr. Elliot stated that we should allow the right to religious freedom t...
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Coolidge-Reagan-Walker?Feb 21, 2011 2:27 pm - When three-fourths of the Boston police department went on strike in 1919, leading to broken shop windows and looting, then-Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge called out...
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More life-affirming alternatives neededFeb 23, 2011 8:27 am - Peggy Simonsen takes exception to Rep. Joe Walsh's position on social issues in her Fence Post letter printed in the Feb. 13 edition of the Daily Herald. While she is en...
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In the center of the stormFeb 23, 2011 2:17 pm - By George Will MADISON, Wis. — Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested ...
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Federal policies skew house values everywhereFeb 23, 2011 2:17 pm - Not Seattle! Home prices in the “Queen City” of the Northwest were not supposed to go south. This isn’t Miami, Phoenix or Las Vegas, where sun-tanned speculators built b...
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Consumed by fat pensionsFeb 27, 2011 8:34 am - In New York City, the No. 2 guy in the fire department retired on a pension worth $242,000 a year. In New York state, a single official holding two jobs and one pension ...
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Bomb the Asian carp into submissionFeb 23, 2011 4:31 pm - Why, after what seems to be a decade, are we still reading about our elected officials trying to find funding to curb the threat of Asian and Bighead carp in the Great L...
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Medical marijuana effort a big hoaxFeb 21, 2011 2:28 pm - Despite several defeats, state Rep. Lou Lang continues to pull every ploy possible to perpetrate a hoax on the citizens of Illinois by trying to pass SB 1381, which woul...
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This will be do-nothing CongressFeb 21, 2011 12:09 pm - When Gail Rose of Huntley suggested the president should work with Republicans, I wonder what she has been paying attention to over the first two years of the Obama pres...
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