Opinion Stories from May 17, 2013 (Change date)
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Marijuana needed as a painkillerMay 17, 2013 4:08 pm - I remember meeting a woman on a cane who had multiple sclerosis, 5-foot-6, barely weighing 100 pounds with her bones distinctively visible through her skin. She told me ...
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Medical marijuana a step backwardMay 17, 2013 4:08 pm - On April 17, the Illinois House passed HB 1, often referred to as “medical marijuana” legislation, 61-57. On Friday, the state Senate followed suit with a 35-21 vote, an...
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Editorial: Brighter days for open recordsMay 17, 2013 12:04 pm - Illinois is one of the top states in the nation for transparency, an advocacy group for open government says. Or is it? Governments in Illinois turned down so many Freed...
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It’s time to end pension perkMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - With a defined-benefits pension, Illinois teachers and government employees are recipients of a perk that has long-ago disappeared from the private sector, with few exce...
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Speaker has a new motivationMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - After decades of inaction, Speaker Michael Madigan has finally decided to develop a plan to address the pension system which, in its current form, is strangling the fina...
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Drastic changes needed to save stateMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - The State is bust, morally and financially. The best solution to the pension problem is to 1) switch to all charter schools, 2) get rid of public teachers and 3) break t...
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Use of fossil fuels hurts the poor mostMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - This is in response to Gerald Aleksy’s May 9 letter criticizing a protester of the Keystone XL pipeline. Mr. Aleksy begins by claiming, “Many qualified scientists dismis...
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Accountability, sacrifice neededMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - First off, we as taxpayers of the state of Illinois demand that the leaders of the Illinois legislature who blatantly violated the Illinois Constitution by borrowing fro...
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Pension plus paycheck is gallingMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - While not widespread, one particularly galling aspect of Illinois pensions is the ability of individuals to retire from one government job, collect pension benefits and ...
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Taxpayers haven’t been treated ‘brutally’May 17, 2013 5:00 am - A few comments in the Daily Herald’s May 8 editorial (“A start, but more needed on pensions”) left me incredulous, speechless and angry! Saying that “the net effect of t...
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