Opinion Stories from October 19, 2011 (Change date)
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GOP tax holiday is foolhardyOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - The latest idea by the GOP is to give multinational corporation a tax holiday so they can repatriate profits earned overseas like former President Bush got through Congr...
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Why doesn’t Congress like Obamacare?Oct 19, 2011 5:01 am - If Obamacare is so good for everybody else, how come all the Congressmen don’t want it? They want to keep their own medical insurers. David Ronske Elmhurst ...
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Statesmanship of WWII is needed nowOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - At the onset of WWII, the government of Great Britain was not at its best. Edward R. Murrow, an American newsman, reported the people in Britain feeling “the machine is ...
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Free market system guards against fraudOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - This is in response to Froma Harrop’s op-ed: “Why we need more government in health care.” Ms. Harrop states that home-based services to Medicare are bilking the govern...
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The president’s partisan makeoverOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - It is an irony, but not a coincidence, that Barack Obama’s postpartisan era has seen the rise of the tea party movement and Occupy Wall Street. Certainly, the momentum ...
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U-46 insider supports D300 fightOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - As a parent with two kids in the U-46 school system, a two-time candidate for the U-46 board of education and a former vice chairman of the U-46 Citizens Advisory Counci...
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The struggle to get gambling ‘right’Oct 19, 2011 5:01 am - Gov. Pat Quinn has been right on many points regarding the gambling expansion plan passed by the legislature this year. He’s right that the plan, more than tripling the ...
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No reason to fear colliderOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - I felt compelled to respond to Charles Mulvet Jr.’s Oct. 14 letter “Collider tests are like playing with fire.” Mr. Mulvet expresses concerns that high-energy particle ...
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Trade deals will promote job growthOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - Despite the clear economic benefits of trade, almost every story about the recent agreements with Panama, South Korea and Colombia included at least one hard-core oppone...
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Halt Sears tax breakOct 19, 2011 5:01 am - There are more than 21,000 children in District 300, and for the last 23 years they have been figuratively told to sit quietly at the back of the bus while their educati...
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