Opinion Stories from September 25, 2017 (Change date)
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Editorial: Elgin's collaborative approach to helping paroleesSep 26, 2017 10:37 am - Few situations may seem bleaker than a recent parolee trying to put his or her life back together. Their questions are many and the answers may be few - where to live, h...
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Editorial: Parents, think safety on car seats, medicationSep 26, 2017 5:38 pm - Monday wasn't a good day if you are a parent of a small child. If you read that day's Daily Herald, you would have been prompted twice to improve your parental skills. T...
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Stop all the countiesSep 26, 2017 3:52 pm - Recently, the Cook County Board passed a new beverage tax that would add a "penny-per-ounce" to many beverages you may purchase when grocery shopping, including ready-to...
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It's cost of coffee that gets me heated upSep 26, 2017 3:52 pm - As much as I think the "pop tax" is nothing but a way of digging deeper into the public's pockets and has nothing to do with health concerns, at least I can beat it sinc...
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Founders had visionSep 26, 2017 3:52 pm - I think the fact that Illinois is "not in play" is irrelevant. As a Republican, I wish that the state was in play, but I have learned to accept that if our state is not ...
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We want vote to countSep 26, 2017 3:52 pm - There are historians who document that the Electoral College was in a major way created to prevent the most populated states from controlling elections. This last electi...
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We must find our moral outrage on Myanmar refugee crisisSep 25, 2017 1:00 am - I asked a Rohingya refugee I met in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, India, how I should pronounce the word Rohingya. His response was "call us Burmese not Rohingy...
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An interesting changeSep 26, 2017 3:52 pm - Last Sunday's Opinion page's editorial was on the issue of eliminating the Electoral College. You know that is not going to happen. What would make more sense is to elim...
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Lombard parks right to hold ground on LilaciaSep 25, 2017 12:05 am - In 1977, both the Lombard library board and the park district board wisely identified the open space above the library building as space that should be protected by air ...
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High time to change Electoral CollegeSep 25, 2017 12:05 am - The South was fighting the Union long before the Civil War, like in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention. The southern states were responsible for both the Electora...
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