Opinion Stories from June 21, 2012 (Change date)
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Editorial: Protest by intimidation is bad formJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - We all expect public officials to be accessible and willing to listen to concerns even of individuals or groups with whom they do not agree. But to get a knock on the do...
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The GOP’s loosening grip on suburbiaJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - Decades ago when I was in graduate school, the famous University of Chicago professor Richard Wade uttered one of the most important truths about our political system: “...
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The president America never hadJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - My mother could have been president of the United States. She could have been chairman of General Motors, CEO of Apple in the morning and Google in the afternoon — and h...
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A way to preempt graduation cheeringJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - The past several weeks have seen newspaper articles, letters to the editor and TV clips regarding behavior at graduation ceremonies. In some extreme cases, graduates wer...
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Could kids keep bank robbery money?Jun 21, 2012 5:00 am - Once again, our president is pandering for votes by announcing to suspend deportation of young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. His thinking is that ...
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Where’s Obama plan for full employment?Jun 21, 2012 5:00 am - I read with interest the letter, “Let’s hear GOP plan for full employment” in the June 16 Fence Post. It is a rather sweeping indictment and while I agree that poverty c...
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Religious bias must not trample freedomJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - I am never thrilled about or supportive of religious fanatics in any guise, whether it be Muslim, Christian or whatever, but it seems a shame that the Meadows Club in Ro...
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Accept blame on pensions, SpeakerJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - So Michael Madigan wants to shift the responsibility of the state pensions to the school districts. Then he has to cut the states income tax by 40 percent to help the ta...
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