Barrington Hills Opinion
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Don’t cut trains or raise faresJul 29, 2011 12:00 am - What Metra does not need is a fare increase. It’s already $9 round trip from Arlington Heights and $13 round trip from Crystal Lake to Chicago. It’s ridiculously expensi...
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Walk in a teacher’s shoes, then set policyJul 29, 2011 12:00 am - Earlier this month our governor decided to scrap the state writing test to save $2.4 million. This is a very small savings in the overall cost of education and a perfect...
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Government has ability to pay its billsJul 29, 2011 12:00 am - If we don’t raise the debt ceiling is the government really going to default on its debt? Is the government really totally out of money? According to columnist Eugene Ro...
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Error shouldn’t have been publishedJul 29, 2011 12:00 am - On July 16, a letter was printed from reader who accused President Obama of lying about the military service of his father. She is mistaken. Barack Obama has referred ma...
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Compromise not a bad word on debtJul 28, 2011 7:00 pm - As if the complexities of the debt ceiling debate were not confounding enough by themselves, political debate over the issue has become so steeped in vitriol and bluster...
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GOP not working for the common goodJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - It is appalling that our country has the debt crisis that it does. We can thank the Bush administration and the Republicans for the financial ruin that the United States...
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Saving energy takes patienceJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - One of Al Gore’s recent statements hits the nail on the head: “Climate change is not your fault, but it is our problem.” We have raised the average temperature of the ea...
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Money is there for the truly needyJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - I read with great amusement that the argument that too many citizens pay no federal income tax is a fallacy because “they do pay payroll taxes.” Surely anyone with even ...
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Put nation’s good over self-interestJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - The Republican politicians are at it again. Since President Obama took office they publicly proclaimed that their goal was to bring him down and defeat him in 2012. They...
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Corn for food; hemp for fuelJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - Thomas Jefferson said that hemp was vital to the future of the nation. Lobbying by DuPont and Hearst newspapers resulted in the ban on hemp growth. Hemp for making ethan...