Algonquin Opinion
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Make sure renters know condo planJul 20, 2012 4:40 am - Every now and then there is an update on the Riverside Plaza at Routes 31 and 62 in Algonquin. Now there is talk of changing the condo units into apartments. However, in...
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Editorial: A precaution about pets during the dog daysJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - While out running errands, you’ve probably seen a dog or cat locked in a car waiting for its owner to return. If it was a warm, sunny day, maybe you were concerned. If t...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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Ethics law would bring taxes downJul 08, 2012 4:40 am - Recently, I received my property tax bill, and like everyone else, I was shocked and disgusted by the fact that my property values had gone done by 30 percent and my tax...
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The SoapboxJun 30, 2012 5:00 am - Good call: Kudos to Rob Sherman for calling attention to a move by the Buffalo Grove village board to almost double water rates. On the agenda, the item was listed as a ...
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Editorial: Monitoring needed with drug program innovationJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - Change is a constant in criminal justice, and rightly so. Law enforcement officials and prosecutors who face funding cuts and pressure to keep crime stats low should be ...
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Despite shaky start our kids surprise usJun 03, 2012 4:40 am - Forty-plus years ago my generation journeyed triumphantly to Woodstock for a collective temper tantrum borne of free love, destructive drug use and a universal contempt ...
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The ruling and the working classesJun 03, 2012 4:40 am - The May 27 edition of the Chicago Tribune featured two articles in the Business section that made me think of the Marxist principle of the struggle for power between the...
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Average pensioner left out in coldJun 02, 2012 4:40 am - For 30 years I worked at the Elgin Mental Health Center and paid the state for my retirement. It was not a well-paying job but I worked for a promised pension and health...
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Obama’s people rewriting historyJun 02, 2012 4:40 am - You’re so vain ... Mr. President, you probably think this is about you. Don’t you? Don’t you? The president’s narcissistic self-insertion into official presidential biog...