Opinion Stories from July 29, 2014 (Change date)
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Editorial: Stay calm, alert through road constructionJul 30, 2014 9:37 am - You're sitting in your car, fiddling with the radio knobs for something to do, when a horn blasts behind you. You look up to see the traffic ahead of you on the Elgin-O'...
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Exonerating the criminalsJul 29, 2014 9:40 am - Recep Tayyip Erdogan's anti-Semitism is getting the better of him. Once again, the Turkish prime minister has trotted out the Hitler analogy in relation to Israel and wh...
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State pensions inherently against constitutionJul 29, 2014 5:05 am - State constitution: the fundamental principles by which a state is governed. I question the legality of the part of the Illinois Constitution regarding the pension syste...
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Train engineers not 'whistle happy'Jul 29, 2014 5:05 am - As a locomotive engineer, I take exception to the July 21 column "Quiet zone might be answer to horn problem" by Marni Pyke, specifically her comment: "But at least Bens...
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Palestinians' needs must be recognizedJul 31, 2014 5:18 pm - The (French, Dutch, Yugoslav, Czech, Norwegian, Polish, Greek, etc.) Underground Resistance fought the five-year Nazi occupation of their countries with whatever small w...
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'Overseas' corporations costing U.S. taxpayersJul 29, 2014 5:05 am - A recent article in the Business section in the Daily Herald stated that the creator of Beanie Babies, Ty Warner, tried to hide over $25 million from federal tax authori...
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Skip the comparisons with MexicoJul 29, 2014 5:05 am - Almost any discussion of how the United States treats uninvited visitors - whether they be child refugees looking for shelter or adult immigrants looking for jobs - will...
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Editorial: Homeless education funding scarce but neededJul 29, 2014 5:08 am - As we learned in staff writer Melissa Silverberg's story on Sunday, homeless students stopped a long time ago being just a Chicago problem. The number of Northwest subur...
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Leftist writers can't see the error of their waysJul 29, 2014 5:05 am - The Herald is becoming too left-leaning for my taste. Your writers, Richard Cohen (and others), are living in never-never land. We should take his advice and avoid a boo...
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Why incumbents keep getting re-electedJul 29, 2014 5:05 am - It's no news that Congress is unpopular. In fact, at times it seems like the only real novelty on Capitol Hill would be a jump in its approval rating. In June, a Gallup ...
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