Opinion Stories from June 1, 2011 (Change date)
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Thanks for help in difficult yearJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - I want to thank everybody from my heart who supported me through everything that has happened this year, especially those who came to my fundraiser and those who donated...
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Troubled waters ahead?Jun 01, 2011 1:00 am - In a slender essay titled “Here Is New York,” E.B. White wrote about the implausibility of the great city, mentioning among other things the millions of gallons of water...
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Tax breaks that taxpayers pay forJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - Sears said it will move unless Sears gets some tax breaks. The electric company wants the taxpayers to pay for their new grids. New Cubs owners want to have us pa...
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Massive ice melt would be devastatingJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - Just something interesting about our planet: The northern polar region is not an “above sea level” land area. It is just frozen water that melts and refreezes with the s...
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In cyberspace, everyone’s a criticJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - On the prowl for a good dinner in a Florida town we didn’t know well, I went on Yelp. Yelp is a social networking website that lets anyone review a business. One Italian...
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Tornado-proof houses when rebuildingJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - After Joplin’s devastating tornado, which savagely ripped apart conventional housing, leaving block after block of nothing but kindling wood, wouldn’t it make sense to r...
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Bureaucrats great at stoking up emotionsJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - Columnist Michael Gerson evaluated the film “Atlas Shrugged” as mediocre. He charged that the characters are ideological puppets without “a hint of sympathetic human emo...
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How tax increase means fewer jobsJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - I am semiretired and live in Wayne. I am 70 years old and my wife I have a home that is on four acres in Kane County. We had our kids ask us about raising a couple of ho...
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Beyond just reacting to homelessnessJun 01, 2011 12:00 am - The image of an unkempt middle-aged man drinking on a park bench by day and bedding down in a shelter by night persistently symbolizes the homeless population. In realit...
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Libraries are a bargainJun 01, 2011 12:00 am - This letter is in response to the May 27 Fence Post opinion that libraries are obsolete, submitted by Doug Eden of St. Charles. When I look at my tax bill, Mr. Eden, I s...