Opinion Stories from October 21, 2013 (Change date)
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New roads, lanes take priority over oasisOct 21, 2013 5:00 pm - An Oct. 12 letter to the editor suggests the Illinois Tollway demonstrated poor planning when it funded the renovation of the Des Plaines Oasis in 2003 and recently anno...
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Women’s gun club only promotes fearOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - According to your lead article in the Oct. 7 paper, we now have a new gun demographic — women and their children. The article and photos about the Des Plaines women’s gu...
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Mt. Prospect walkers have a place againOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - Thanks to Brian Taylor, director of recreation, and the Mount Prospect park board, we now have a free indoor place to walk in Mount Prospect. The hockey rink and gym spa...
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Can’t something be done about skunks?Oct 21, 2013 5:00 am - Arlington Heights stinks. And so do many Chicago area suburbs. I’m talking about skunks. The skunk problem in the suburbs has been growing over the last few years. The s...
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The young don’t understand economic basicsOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - It seems to me that there are things at work here preventing our young people from grasping the fact that this one issue of economics (tremendous public debt) could make...
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Extremism will return us to Dark AgesOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - First let me state what my mother told me over 50 years ago; “America would never be defeated by a foreign power but could be destroyed from within.” We are coming close...
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Simplify method for proof of insuranceOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - I recently received a notice from the Secretary of State’s Office demanding that I supply them with my auto insurance company name and policy number. I find it really ab...
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Family will feel loss of Dominick’sOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - When Mundelein lost Blockbuster a few years ago, I survived by finding movies to rent at other places like the library. When we lost Best Buy and Applebee’s, it was a l...
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Cohen’s arguments in column fall apartOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - Richard Cohen’s Oct. 2 column would be so fatuous as to provoke laughter if it weren’t so mendacious in its “facts.” Cohen says, “McCarthyism consisted of slippery truth...
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More than one way to wreck nationOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - The skirmishing continues in Washington. Shifting demands of the Tea/Republican Party make it clear that what is in fact demanded is the resignation of the current occu...
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