Opinion Stories from June 8, 2012 (Change date)
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Summer safety an important topicJun 08, 2012 4:41 pm - Today’s Daily Herald editorial “Bike tragedy a summer warning to all” should be read by all. Parents should cut out the editorial and put it on the refrigerator as a con...
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Growing independence from both partiesJun 08, 2012 11:33 am - In his 2007 book, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800,” historian Jay Winik writes that among Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton ...
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Editorial: Monitoring needed with drug program innovationJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - Change is a constant in criminal justice, and rightly so. Law enforcement officials and prosecutors who face funding cuts and pressure to keep crime stats low should be ...
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Why can’t Congress, Obama get a clue?Jun 08, 2012 5:00 am - If you are in your 50s and 60s you may be wondering what happened to our country. How did we get to a point where everything seems to be turned upside down and backward?...
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Playing with dynamite over pensionsJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - Gov. Scott Walker’s decisive victory in Wisconsin admits to a number of plausible explanations: a rejection of overreach in the use of recall elections, a repudiation of...
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Sensible ways to reduce the deficitJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - The House Republicans recently approved a plan to reduce the federal deficit. Simply stated the Republican plan calls for reducing or eliminating spending on social prog...
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Praise for a one-ballot primaryJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - My right-wing friend, ginned up (literally) from his team’s impending “victory” in Wisconsin, called me on Tuesday night. I took some of his glow off by noting that I, t...
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For president, choice is obviousJun 08, 2012 4:40 am - In this year’s presidential campaigns, we hear about the most peculiar of things — from vampires in business to foreigners being presidents. We ought not be distracted b...
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Nov. 6 is our recall electionJun 08, 2012 10:32 am - Wake up, Illinois Nov. 6 is the time to do as Wisconsin did. Let’s get rid of the politicians who are in bed with special interest groups and not for the people. Get bac...
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Don’t give away farm in teacher contractsJun 08, 2012 4:40 am - Are taxpayers ready for teachers strikes? Reviewing property tax invoices, even with reduced property values, the addition of the state’s equalization factor and other a...
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