Arlington Heights Opinion
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Take rebate, treat your ash trees nowOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - Imagine fall without trees and leaves. That’s what you’ll get if you don’t treat your Ash trees now. Without mature trees that home you plan to use for your kid’s colleg...
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Schakowsky embarrasses herself and othersOct 20, 2013 5:00 am - The U.S. government is shut down due to the failure of Congress to pass the budget for fiscal year 2014. The principle reason for the impasse is the effort to defund the...
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Obamacare has too many questionsOct 20, 2013 5:00 am - What is wrong with Congress and the White House — are they again children? “I got my candy first so I’m the favorite! Hah, then I just won’t play!” Does that seem famili...
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Politicians have all the say in major projectsOct 19, 2013 5:00 am - The real reason supporters want to build the Illiana tollway is because the politicians have invested a lot of their money buying up the property around it in anticipati...
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The SoapboxOct 19, 2013 5:00 am - A special homecoming queen, Part 1: We can’t say enough about the seniors at Downers Grove North High School, especially Mary Doro, who nominated her friend Anne Wagner ...
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The alluring, but unfinished, saga of Cook County budgetOct 17, 2013 5:00 am - The story of the 2014 Cook County budget, unveiled last week by county board President Toni Preckwinkle, sounds very alluring today but may not be entirely evident until...
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GOP frequently has candidate forumsOct 14, 2013 5:00 am - I wish to correct the record regarding (Elk Grove Township GOP committeeman) candidate (Scott) Lietzow’s pronouncement that “If I hadn’t decided to run, the township wou...
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Preckwinkle committed to working with allOct 14, 2013 5:00 am - I was disappointed by the way the Daily Herald characterized my position — writing that my “efforts to reduce the county’s jail population and save taxpayers millions of...
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Perplexed by run for twp. committeemanOct 14, 2013 5:00 am - While I respect every individual’s right to run for any public office and, in fact, believe we as a country would benefit from a broader involvement by the everday citiz...
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Things civics class never taught meOct 14, 2013 5:00 am - As the events in Washington unfold and the federal shutdown continues, I have to wonder why back when I was in school my history and civics teachers never told me how th...