Opinion Stories from August 5, 2011 (Change date)
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A way to make video poker palatableAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - When I first read Scott Roscoe’s letter enthusiastically approving video poker, I had my doubts. After some thought I have come up with a palatable way of implementing v...
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Obama’s the one who should be suedAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - On July 28, lured by the mega-font and the full front page headline, I thought the Sun Times had “scooped” the second coming of Christ. I was wrong. It screamed: “Tea pa...
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Why keep giving up our freedoms?Aug 05, 2011 3:00 am - President Obama is pressuring America to agree to the United Nations global ban on concealed weapons. Should we jump on the bandwagon, surrendering more and more of our ...
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Limit p-card use, ensure transparencyAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - It’s much easier to hand a clerk your debit card than it is to hand over money. It’s one reason casinos have you play with chips instead of cash. So it follows that it’s...
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Reasons the education system is brokenAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - The cheating scandal in Atlanta is a perfect example of why the schools will never have enough money. The teachers, principals and superintendents who broke the law coul...
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More casinos would create more addictsAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - I hope Gov. Quinn vetoes the gambling expansion bill. I thought gambling was harmless until my mom became a gambling addict. I never thought a college-educated nurse, wh...
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Unmet needs of a ‘model’ minorityAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - They are known among educators as the “model minority” — the “good students” with disproportionately high enrollment in elite universities, often to study science, techn...
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Straights should fear loss of rightsAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - I found Mr. Jim Finnegan’s letter of July 19 entitled “Defense of Marriage is Defense of Truth” disturbing. Whose truth is he defending? Whether one is straight or gay,...
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Companies should think about employeesAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - In a recent Daily Herald story on job stagnation and the unemployment rate, the phrase that caught my attention was employers have “learned to squeeze more work and reve...
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One way to create term limitsAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - It is time, actually way past time, for another revolution. What is going on now in Congress, and has for the past several decades, is truly taxation without representat...