Opinion Stories from May 5, 2012 (Change date)
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Sudden shift in pension responsibility is untenable planMay 06, 2012 11:38 am - We were and are open to supporting the concept that individual school districts should bear some responsibility for the pension costs they create if they approve exorbit...
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Do we have the will to fix entitlements?May 05, 2012 2:21 pm - The Social Security Act was signed on Aug. 14, 1936, as part of President Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” When speaking about the proposed Social Security program during his 193...
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Failing at what they should do bestMay 05, 2012 5:01 am - First we learn that the Secret Service hired prostitutes and next we hear they used strippers. It would seem the Secret Service can’t keep a secret. Don Klemp Rolling M...
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Fraud argument weak in voter ID lawsMay 05, 2012 5:01 am - The Daily Herald has recently published a number of Fence Post letters on the subject of voter ID laws. Some have argued they are necessary to protect the integrity of o...
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Politics creeping into comic stripMay 05, 2012 5:01 am - Politics creeping into comic strip There has been a touch of politics in a few comic strips for years to a certain degree. Most notable is Doonesbury. But most stay...
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The SoapboxMay 05, 2012 5:01 am - Secretive police: For weeks, Des Plaines officials have refused to divulge much about charges brought against two police officers. Now, one of them has filed suit agains...
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Jackson Jr. not listening on PeotoneMay 05, 2012 5:01 am - Jackson Jr. not listening on Peotone Why does Jesse Jackson Jr. keep pursuing the idea of a third airport in Peotone since the people there and the airlines do not ...
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Double dipping has to endMay 05, 2012 5:01 am - I, like most of my fellow Illinois citizens, do not begrudge teachers and public employees their well-earned pensions. What I do find appalling is the large amounts affo...
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Whose federal budget ideas do you follow?May 05, 2012 5:01 am - Paul Ryan has stated that his budget was “informed by” the Catholic Church’s “social magisterium” — i.e., its teaching, among other things, “to prevent the poor from sta...
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Reasons to celebrate national nurses weekMay 05, 2012 1:01 am - National Nurses Week (May 6-12) is celebrated annually to recognize the impact that nurses and nurse educators continue to make in the dynamic field of health care. When...
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