Batavia Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: Embarrassment in Grafton TownshipOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - What an embarrassment: You'd think that repeated public exposure in the newspaper would encourage leaders in Grafton Township to at least try to portray a better pu...
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Do your homework before you voteOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Election rhetoric is filling mail, in boxes and flat screens. What are we to believe concerning conditions in Illinois? What really is the state of the state? What can w...
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State Senate Dist. 25: LauzenOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - With 18 years in General Assembly, 25th District state Sen. Chris Lauzen of Aurora is one of the area's longest-serving legislators. Given the mess that is Springfield,...
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Let's keep Chicago politics in ChicagoOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Chicago politics have effectively degraded Illinois and the national economic scenes. Let's see, the Obama Health Care bill (2,900 pages) and the Illinois state budget (...
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Fox has background to be comptrollerOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Another sign of voter anger is the number of third party candidates on the ballot. Third parties in Illinois overcame the incumbent protectionist signature requirements ...
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Dalton cares, has integrityOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - I've lived in the northeast neighborhood of Elgin for my entire life and one thing that stands out about it is how connected everyone is and how we all take care of each...
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Raise income tax to zap deficitOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - After seeing the Republican Party's “Pledge to America" and reading about the economic plans of both local and national Republican candidates, I'm beginning to think tha...
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Brady not right for IllinoisOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Candidate Bill Brady, a 17-year Springfield politician and nonunion employer, claims that he will cut the state budget by 10 percent. While this may appeal to some, we n...
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Foster malicious in his Hultgren attacksOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Every day a trip to my mailbox finds more malicious and false garbage from Bill Foster attacking Randy Hultgren. Regarding Foster, in the words of Ronald Reagan, “there ...
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Let locals decide how to run thingsOct 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Kathleen Parker pointed out something very insightful in her Oct. 1 column. This is one of the many reasons that Washington should stick to the basics that the federal g...