Opinion Stories from November 4, 2012 (Change date)
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The great, ideological choiceNov 04, 2012 5:00 am - “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That was Barack Obama in 2008. And he was r...
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Two political changes I’d like to seeNov 04, 2012 5:00 am - My darling wife hates it when I say something like, “Before I die, I’d like to see Berlin, or travel to Amsterdam to see the Rembrandts,” or any number of travel destina...
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Too many holidays for county court workersNov 04, 2012 5:00 am - In an attempt to look up my old subcircuit judicial district on the Cook County Court system’s website, I stumbled upon the 13 slated holidays for court workers. Since D...
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Extend tax credit for wind energyNov 04, 2012 5:00 am - A critical piece of national legislation is the Production Tax Credit (PTC) that is important to the continued growth of the wind energy industry. In Illinois this indus...
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Article was unfair to soccer playerNov 04, 2012 5:00 am - I just read the Oct. 19 article “Soccer Great Abby Wambach needs refresher on media relations” by Patricia Babcock McGraw. If you look up the U.S. Women’s National Team ...
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Time we shared and shared alikeNov 04, 2012 4:40 am - The Fence Post submission by Ross Collard of Albuquerque, N.M., makes a valid point about smearing the desert Southwest landscape with solar panels and transmission line...
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Without life, what else matters?Nov 04, 2012 4:40 am - According to Froma Harrop’s column on Oct. 29, titled “‘Access’” to birth control doesn’t count,” she equates “free” contraceptives with a “virtuous economic cycle” as t...
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Don’t vent over money legally spentNov 04, 2012 4:20 am - Don’t vent over money legally spent Mark Bodett’s Fence Post letter has Margaret Thatcher saying that “the problem of socialism (people spending other people’s mone...
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Milwaukee tragedy exposes vulnerabilityNov 05, 2012 11:13 am - An armed man walked into a Milwaukee salon and killed three women and wounded four others before taking his own life. The suspect's wife was an employee at the spa and h...
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