Opinion Stories from February 27, 2011 (Change date)
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A commitment to seniors and schoolsFeb 28, 2011 1:01 pm - We are writing to let our neighbors in Lombard village board District 5 know we will be voting for Laura Fitzpatrick for trustee and why we hope they will vote for her a...
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School choice would benefit IllinoisFeb 25, 2011 7:34 pm - Empowering parents to choose the best school for their children — whether public or private, regardless of ZIP code — isn’t just the right thing to do. With Illinois str...
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The proper focus of budget discussionsFeb 28, 2011 5:39 pm - By The Daily Herald Editorial Board How can we argue with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin that the research done at Fermilab and Argonne Laboratories is critical both to the subur...
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Congress shouldn’t skip this class actMar 01, 2011 10:17 am - For Princetonians, the senior thesis is a high hurdle before graduation. For Wendy Kopp, class of 1989, it became a career devoted to transforming primary and second...
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Stop the assault on clean air, waterFeb 25, 2011 7:34 pm - Illinoisans voted for many things in November, but they certainly did not vote for more asthma attacks, more contaminated drinking water and more threats to our open spa...
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Rubicon: A river in WisconsinFeb 25, 2011 7:33 pm - The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic...
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What compassionate socialism can doFeb 28, 2011 1:01 pm - Assuming a more conservative figure of total debt outstanding of $55 trillion in the U.S (Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University says it’s more like $200 trillion), thi...
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Deflating the anti-SemitesFeb 28, 2011 1:01 pm - During World War II, the leader of the Palestinians lived in a Berlin villa, a gift from a very grateful Adolf Hitler, who clearly got his money’s worth. Haj Amin al-Hus...
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Nursing homes not place for cutbacksFeb 25, 2011 7:34 pm - During his budget address, Gov. Pat Quinn announced a 6 percent Medicaid budget cut to nursing homes for the upcoming fiscal year, cutting more than $100 million from se...
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Cutting wrong things at wrong timeFeb 28, 2011 1:01 pm - If Republicans were truly concerned about the nation’s budget deficit, they would slash where the waste and money are, that is: 1) the $40 billion in subsidies for the e...
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