Arlington Heights Opinion
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Metra unprepared for summer crowdsAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - On Wednesday, Aug. 6, my wife, daughter and two grandchildren under 7 years were headed to the Field Museum in downtown Chicago. We waited at the Mount Prospect station...
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Kirk on wrong side of gender pay issueAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Congressman Mark Kirk voted against pay equity for women yet again. I guess he isn't really the moderate Republican he pretends to be. Women continue to earn only 77 ce...
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Offshore drilling not the answerAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Recent letters and right-wing columnists have suggested that opposition to offshore oil drilling hurts the American economy and keeps gas prices high. It doesn't take m...
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Murphy exploits county sales taxAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Gov. Blagojevich is starting to rub off on my State Sen. Matt Murphy. He thinks that legislating via press conference and press releases is going to actually repeal the...
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The vote against gender pay equityAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Last week, a large group of 10th District men and women delivered a letter to Rep. Mark Kirk's district office expressing our dismay with his recent vote against pay equ...
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CN/EJ&E merger needs long viewAug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Your article ("Fighting Over Trains," July 13) was some of the most balanced and insightful reporting I've seen on the long-simmering fight over the EJ&E. Looking at his...
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Goodbye Ginny, and thank youAug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Virginia B. Macdonald was a dear friend and mentor of mine for many years. After the Goldwater defeat in 1964, Ginny was the glue that held the conservative Republicans ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Cook and Lake countiesAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Out-of-the-box thinking It will be interesting to see how Palatine's unorthodox approach to dealing with stormwater pans out. The village has started a pilot program to ...
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Is Obama a foreign policy expert now?Aug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - So merely traveling overseas now qualifies as adding to one's foreign policy experience? As a 17-year-old stumbling from one German beer garden to another, it never occ...
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Why do we put up with all of this?Aug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - What does it take for the voters in this state to wake up and smell the coffee? The city of Chicago run by the Democrats, while run pretty well by the Daleys, is curren...