Opinion Stories from September 6, 2011 (Change date)
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Historical parallel too close for comfortSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - Calvin Coolidge is known to history as an adherent of laissez-faire ideology that resulted in a period of U.S. economic heights called the “Roaring Twenties” during whic...
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Don’t want taxes going to the dogsSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - I am writing in regard to the proposed dog park that will be shared by Elgin and Hoffman Estates. I see that this will initially cost both towns a shared amount of $80,0...
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Beware of easy ‘fixes’ for entitlement programsSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - Please, everyone, stop monkeying around with Social Security and Medicare. We mean you, Republicans, and you, Democrats. No one’s saying that Social Security can’t be sl...
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Prosperity for all a workable goalSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - The promise of America has always been more than “liberty and justice for all.” Don’t forget “prosperity for all,” a moving target that we keep approaching but never hav...
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Retirement fund is all about taxesSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - The Aug. 18 Fence Post response by Mr. Dick Ingram, executive director of the Teachers’ Retirement System, to a previous Daily Herald article about TRS’ “big pension boo...
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Make Bears pay for Soldier FieldSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - The city of Chicago owns a $630 million dollar asset they can sell to reduce their debt and get solvent. That asset happens to be Soldier Field, which cost exactly that ...
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This is not real all-day kindergartenSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - We received a letter from J.B. Nelson School in Batavia on June 1 informing us in which session of kindergarten our children have been placed. On the bottom of that lett...
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Put spending money into hands of poorSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - Allowing the wealthy to have more money will not create jobs. Jobs don’t appear from higher profits or from larger investments; jobs are created when a company’s demand ...
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Where does cancer research money go?Sep 06, 2011 1:00 am - Virtually a day does not go by when you will read or see on TV a request for money for cancer research — walks and carwashes and outright begging for funds for cancer re...
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Illinois ethics laws need teethSep 06, 2011 1:00 am - Recently, Legislative Inspector General Tom Homer wrote members of the Illinois General Assembly urging action to put some teeth into the legislator ethics laws. Homer s...