Arlington Heights Opinion
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Just return excess money to taxpayersNov 19, 2013 4:30 am - The reserves are taxpayer funds held in trust by the district. It’s not the school’s money. The ethical and honest thing to do is to rebate the excess cash back to the o...
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AP investigation on ethanol slantedNov 19, 2013 4:00 am - The Nov. 12 Associated Press article concerning ethanol was horribly slanted and based on many half truths. I am very disappointed that it was the headline in the Busine...
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A scary, puzzling time for a first-graderNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The lunch bell rang, and we lined up at the door of our first-grade classroom. “Bring all your books with you. You’re all going home,” Sister Francis Marie said with a c...
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Johnson followed Kennedy admirablyNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was 16 years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the first of three tragic assassinations during the ’60s; Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King...
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Kennedy years guided later political choicesNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - My college years were “bookended” by JFK’s presidency. I stayed up all night in my dorm’s TV room on the November evening of his election my freshman year. I listened in...
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Bitter words led to life of political activityNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was a 17-year-old student in English class at Arlington High School when the news was announced overhead that the president had been shot. Our student teacher said, “I...
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The first group with no memory of itNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was first-semester freshman in college in the fall of 1977. I was in an American history class covering 1877-present. Our professor was lecturing about the day of JFK’...
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A dark time in our nation’s historyNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - To put it succinctly, “It was the best of times it was the worst of times.” I was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and was a senior in high school at the time. The C...
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Military officers solemn on plane rideNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Nov. 22 began as my last day of work at a North Side Chicago business. And it was to celebrate both my mother’s and sister’s birthdays. I had not worked long at this bus...
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Quinn’s got it wrong on ‘progressive’ taxNov 16, 2013 4:00 am - As Illinois’ debt increases by at least $21 million per day, we hear calls by Gov. Pat Quinn and many in the state legislature to move to a “progressive” state income ta...