Opinion Stories from August 15, 2013 (Change date)
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Blame woes on voters, self-serving officialsAug 19, 2013 1:45 pm - The Illinois pension problem is the worst of the worst, going further into debt — over $12 million a day. Many leaders in Springfield today are the same ones and from th...
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Medicare trend is ominousAug 15, 2013 6:00 am - Wall Street Journal estimates near 10,000 physicians in the country currently refuse to accept Medicare patients in their practice. I wonder who will take care of their...
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Rhetoric vs. reality for RepublicansAug 15, 2013 4:32 pm - So what’s it going to be for GOP hotheads in Congress this fall? A soul-satisfying episode of adolescent nihilism culminating in a government shutdown and yet another de...
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VA backlog too big to help veteransAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - Here are my views about the Veterans Affairs branch in Chicago. They have just a few hundred personnel that are supposed to complete three cases a day — with a backlog o...
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Editorial sought to challenge a tired phraseAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - I got my first personal introduction to what has come to be known as NIMBY syndrome in Clinton, Iowa, back in the 1970s. As a cub reporter, I attended meeting after emot...
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Editorial: Arm cops with AEDsAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - Hero stories inspire us to want to help others. The story of Ed and Nancy Sullivan of Addison and their heroine, Maria Reyes, is no different. The Sullivans want to be s...
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Aug 15, 2013 4:40 am - It was my good pleasure to be part of a special event held in Naperville Thursday, July 25. Truly, this event embodied the spirit of Naperville itself, as many members o...
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Rose banishment from Hall unjustAug 15, 2013 4:40 am - Rose banishment from Hall unjust Pete Rose’s crime was not how he performed on the diamond. The current tide of physical enhancement should show all the Hall of Fam...
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Create list for the ‘drug-enhanced’Aug 15, 2013 4:40 am - Create list for the ‘drug-enhanced’ Alex Rodriguez, JhonnyPeralta, Nelson Cruz and other misfits have been suspended by MLB for cheating by taking PED. It’s a slap ...
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