Arlington Heights Opinion
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COD deannexation a terrible decisionDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - The College of DuPage board made a terrible decision when it voted to deannex from the village of Glen Ellyn. If these seven board members had more wisdom, experience an...
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Obama is dividing, not unitingDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - I think I felt like many people who did not vote for Barack Obama in 2008. Even though my candidate lost, I viewed his election as historic. I hoped that his personality...
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Larkin Center needs better fundingDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - The mental health cuts in Illinois have deeply affected the Larkin Center. The reduced funding at the center has prevented the children from receiving the proper care th...
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Remove those liable for abuseDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - Penn State’s board of trustees finally did the right thing in firing Joe Patero and others responsible for looking the other way. When will the Catholic Church take acti...
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Grateful for act of kindness by strangerDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - When my husband and I arrived at the Arlington Heights train station at 11:30 at night, we had a dead battery. We walked across the street to a gas station’s quick mart....
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Arends doesn’t get respect she deservesDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - Your article was too kind. If you noticed, while T.L. Arends was speaking the trustees had the “who cares” look on their face, which carried over to the time residents w...
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Love the parks, but $36 a year too muchDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - Memo to the Arlington Heights Park District. We are fortunate to have well-maintained parks, but it is unthinkable that you would raise our real estate taxes by $36 per ...
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There’s always next year, right?Dec 12, 2011 4:00 am - The Cubs’ new skipper is Dale Sveum, Who carries a hard-to-say neum. But I fear that there’s reason To think that next season The outcome will still be the seum. Fr...
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Park district ‘snubs’ Wendell JonesDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - I can’t believe that our Palatine Park District would NOT support honoring Wendell Jones by adding his name to Towne Square. This is the epitome of cronyism, and contrar...
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Illinois needs updated tax lawsDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - Despite job gains that reduced the national unemployment rate to 8.6 percent, Illinois’ rate remains at 10 percent, meaning hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans remain j...