Bartlett Opinion
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Edgar doesn't know what's best for stateJan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Former Governor Jim Edgar should leave Illinois as soon as possible. Here's why: His strong support for Judy Baar Topinka ensured that Blagojevich would get elected to ...
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Same rules should apply to reportersJan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - The Daily Herald's editorial urging passage of "The Free Flow of Information Act" is another illustration of media's self-adulation. Why should law prevent a reporter fr...
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We can't even predict tomorrow's weatherJan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - It's difficult to believe that the Climate Crisis solution is settled no matter what the so-called experts say. The usual way to settle the science is to allow other sci...
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What's in it for the little guys, utilities?Jan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - While paying my monthly bills, I am asked by ComEd, and Nicor, and Comcast to pay electronically - thereby saving time, paper, trees, postage, etc. Yet, there is no ince...
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No need to call them death panelsJan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - There are no death panels, are there? Why did Obama adviser Cass Sunstein say, If a program would prevent fifty deaths of people who are twenty, should it be treated the...
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Stem cells can come from adults, tooJan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - On Page 4 of the Dec. 24 edition of the Daily Herald there was a heart-warming story, called "Their Christmas Eve miracle", about a mother's stem cells being used to cur...
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Visit underscores need for donationsJan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - I recently returned from a 22-day odyssey in sunny Nicaragua to the chilly Northwest Chicago suburb. Ever since my flight landed at O'Hare it has been a study in contras...
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New law gives abandoned a chanceJan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - A Dumpster is no place for an infant. Yet every year we hear of abandoned children discarded in Dumpsters, alleys and other injurious places. Thankfully, this practice i...
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Look homeward for life's atrocitiesJan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - We look in horror at the punishment meted out for an 8-year-old boy in Iran who stole a loaf of bread. The father holds his arm to the ground as an auto is driven over t...
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Start 2010 with healthy choicesJan 03, 2010 10:00 pm - As 2010 begins, health care reform is on everyone's mind. It takes more than an act of Congress to care for our own health; many of our greatest challenges involve decis...