Opinion Stories from January 9, 2014 (Change date)
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Obamacare will weigh on the middle classJan 09, 2014 4:00 am - A letter from Kim Savage published Dec. 26 expresses the virtues of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). That writer is under the impression the government website’s problem...
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Common Core a deceptive Trojan HorseJan 09, 2014 4:00 am - According to a recent Gallup poll 72 percent of the American people view big government as a bigger threat to this nation than big business or big labor. But what about ...
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Hunger hurts us allJan 09, 2014 4:00 am - Carly Poe is a 33-year-old single mother in Portland, Ore. Despite a college degree, she struggles to find work and raise a teenage son with serious medical problems. Fo...
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Editorial: Metra meets a challenge but has work to doJan 09, 2014 4:44 am - Metra officials emphasized this week that they did the best they could under extreme conditions, and no one will deny that the conditions the railroad faced were extreme...
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Weather creed: Good stories and plenty of themJan 09, 2014 9:38 am - To butcher the creed of another venerable American institution, the post office, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night — nor now, the bitterest of cold — can...
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Most federal workers receive only average payJan 09, 2014 4:00 am - I am writing to respond to Mr. Gary Koca’s letter regarding federal employees’ benefits. I am sure Mr. Koca has good intentions by saying what he did, but he just does n...
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New Year’s wish: Show humility, RushJan 09, 2014 3:40 am - New Year’s wish: Show humility, Rush Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio GOP champion, should take a lesson from Pope Francis and stop his bigotry, fear-mongering a...
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Rebuttal to Brazile’s good and bad timesJan 09, 2014 3:40 am - Rebuttal to Brazile’s good and bad times Donna Brazile must have spent 2013 living under a rock. After reading this syndicated columnist’s Tale of Two Cities Jan. 2...
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