Opinion Stories from May 10, 2011 (Change date)
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A visit to PaulsvilleMay 10, 2011 7:19 pm - Before last week’s South Carolina Republican debate, Ron Paul supporters complained that their candidate was not getting the first-tier attention his polling and fundrai...
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Lake County should review, tighten p-card programMay 10, 2011 6:58 pm - It’s no surprise that residents in Illinois and elsewhere are growing more mindful about waste and mismanagement in government these days. The weak economy and reports o...
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Cutting pensions is a bad ideaMay 10, 2011 1:09 pm - Cutting pensions is a bad idea A lot of opinions have been splashed across editorial pages recently about how we need to fix the pension crisis. We’ve been talking ...
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Truck-speed bill harmful to motoristsMay 10, 2011 1:09 pm - Truck-speed bill harmful to motorists Here we go again. Motorists should know SB 1913, which raises speed limits for large tractor-trailer trucks to 65 mph from 55 ...
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Proposal opens door to easy rate hikesMay 10, 2011 1:10 pm - Proposal opens door to easy rate hikes Your April 11 article about HB 14, automatic rate-hike legislation pushed by Ameren and ComEd (“Customer benefits debated in ...
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Who’s knocking ‘silliness’ now?May 10, 2011 1:09 pm - Daily Herald readers are owed an apology from Fence Post writer Larry Leafblad, who on May 1 complained that President Obama, instead of doing his job, had been invo...
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Affordable Care Act not so affordableMay 10, 2011 1:09 pm - As I read people’s opinions I have come to find many do not understand the Affordable Care Act. First the title itself is a misnomer. Many still cannot afford health ins...
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The dysfunction of American exceptionalismMay 10, 2011 6:52 pm - “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 — and I will not quibble. But the problem of the 21st century is th...
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State must not take taxes from localsMay 10, 2011 1:09 pm - Leaders of the state of Illinois are deep in debt, and still they do not make any cuts. Instead they look to take away revenue from other units of government. I refer to...
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Tax the untaxed to balance budgetMay 10, 2011 1:09 pm - It’s time politicians stop debating whether to raise taxes instead of finding a way to tax those income earners who pay little or no taxes. I’m talking about the crimin...
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