Opinion Stories from September 15, 2011 (Change date)
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Cook County contracts need board voteSep 15, 2011 11:33 am - We're all for streamlining government. Eliminating layers can save taxpayers money as well as frustration. But sometimes, knowing a particular government's history gives...
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Look at parties of high-paid officialsSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - On Aug. 24, the Daily Herald published an in-depth article on the front page by Jake Griffin on the obscenely high salaries of local township supervisors. The highest sa...
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Waste that’s all in the (federal) familySep 15, 2011 5:01 am - In societies governed by persuasion, politics is mostly talk, so liberals’ impoverishment of their vocabulary matters. Having damaged liberalism’s reputation, they call ...
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Disapproval, of course, is a relative thingSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - If the 2012 election were held today, Republicans could very well have their heads handed to them. I do not think this alone. Their debt-ceiling high jinks were no doubt...
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Suit seeks proper use of Zion fundsSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - Over the past two years, several of my Fence Post letters have been published in the Daily Herald zeroing in on the 2,100-megawatt Dual Zion Nuclear Facility, which I co...
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Sept. 11 cartoon hit the nail on the headSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - The Sept. 11 Daily Herald cartoon about either saying “always remember” versus “never forget” between the Democrats and Republicans hits the nail right on the head. One ...
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Leave cursive instruction aloneSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - I found your article about teaching cursive writing to our youth in the public schools very interesting, indeed. Having taught and served as principal in two schools in ...
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Friendship takes step toward an awesome futureSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - In 1994, I attended a journalism workshop devoted to an exciting view of the future of newspapers. Then-Knight Ridder newspaper designer Roger Fidler and a small staff o...
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Where are all the flags now?Sep 15, 2011 5:01 am - I was very disappointed riding around my neighborhood on Sept. 11. There were very few flags out. On my whole block there were only two flags — mine and a family who fli...
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Cable costs sending her back to basicsSep 15, 2011 5:01 am - I am getting upset with the cable companies. I’m not the only one with this problem. They are messing around with the free channels so that we’ll get cable. Promise a ce...
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