Opinion Stories from December 21, 2011 (Change date)
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As MHS learns, convenience counts in openness tooDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - Would you travel four hours and 250 miles to attend a school board meeting? The sad truth is most residents won’t drive even a few miles to hear critical discussions abo...
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Late tax payments burden the rest of usDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - Taxes are paid to the county. The treasurer in turn delegates money in return to the towns and cities from which the taxes were collected. When there is a delinquent pay...
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Rhetoric on Catholic hospitals misleadingDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - I learned at a very young age in Hong Kong with my eyes and ears and heart that we have to nurture the young, care for the old, and help the sick, the poor and the unfor...
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Seeing life in the obit pageDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - It is a Monday morning and I begin my day, as I usually do, with the obituaries. This is a particularly rich day — Vaclav Havel, the novelist, playwright and former pres...
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Too many promises, too little doneDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - President Obama doesn’t suffer from amnesia, but apparently he hopes the public does. In his latest in a series of interviews on “60 Minutes,” the president took positio...
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Ghosts can’t seem to wake us upDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - My family and I just attended the Goodman Production of “A Christmas Carol.” It’s obvious that Dickens wrote this for an earlier era. If Scrooge were living in Illinois ...
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Social Security being mismanagedDec 21, 2011 4:01 am - Sen. Mark Kirk, you say Social Security doesn’t need to be changed. How about looking into the fact that Social Security admits that they spent $320 million that should ...
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Column wrong about ‘wealth creators’Dec 21, 2011 4:01 am - Mr. Cal Thomas: Your column “Thankfulness and those who occupy” (Nov. 24) typifies conservative-based thinking. Envy is not a mitigating factor for those who “occupy.” I...
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