Opinion Stories from December 26, 2011 (Change date)
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Illegal immigrants taking nonfarm jobsDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - When will columnists like Esther Cepeda stop wasting their time writing columns about non-issues like whether the term “anchor baby” is offensive and start dealing with ...
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Grateful to staff at Rainbow HospiceDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - I would like to publicly thank everyone at Rainbow Hospice at the Ark in Park Ridge, for the wonderful care they gave my son, Dino, in his final days. Their care and com...
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The GOP’s payroll tax debacleDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - Now that Congress appears finally to have reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday extens...
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There’s a fine line between funny, sadDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - Through the years Hollywood has taught us that there’s a fine distinction between comedy and tragedy. The report by Paul Bianco of the 85-year-old-curb rider outside of ...
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Have a politically correct holiday season!Dec 26, 2011 5:01 pm - Here we are, uncomfortably sandwiched between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, which, according to top officials at PC Police Headquarters, are the two most politically inc...
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Positive steps toward cleaner airDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - Last week the Environmental Protection Agency released new standards that will limit emissions of pollutants like mercury, arsenic, lead, sulfur dioxide, cyanide and oth...
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The greatest gift for the unemployedDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - To many rational economists, holiday gift-giving is “an orgy of wealth-destruction,” writes Dan Ariely in The Wall Street Journal. A behavioral economist at Duke Univers...
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Meeting for parents of special-needs kidsDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - As a parent of a special needs teenager, in a state which is 47th in the nation in providing education and services to children and young adults with special needs, if a...
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Changes in juvenile justice are workingDec 26, 2011 5:01 am - Thank you for your recent editorial on the juvenile justice system in Illinois. We wholeheartedly agree with your call for an approach to youth that builds on what the r...
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Time for serious talk on cells and safetyDec 26, 2011 4:16 am - In case the message hasn’t been getting through — and standing on a mountain of data showing that it hasn’t — the National Transportation Safety Board struck a blow this...
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