Batavia Opinion
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Time for fire district to pony upApr 13, 2010 11:00 pm - This letter is a response and clarification to your March 25 article on the St. Charles Countryside Fire Protection District. For several years, the City of St. Charles...
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Time to fight for less governmentApr 12, 2010 11:00 pm - The U.S. is $13 trillion in debt. Illinois is $13 billion in debt. The governments are out of money but expanding like mad. The government gives sweetheart pensions to g...
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Don't let problems destroy your faithApr 10, 2010 11:00 pm - There's no denying that past abuses of children by a minority of Catholic priests is horrific and indefensible. Is the remedy then to destroy the Catholic Church and to ...
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Don't bury important newsApr 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Joseph Ryan's April 3 article concerning Alexi Giannoulias was a well written recap of Giannoulias family bank lending practices. What is unfortunate about this article ...
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Protest without the harassmentApr 10, 2010 11:00 pm - As I was sitting in my car watching the protesters at Aurora's Planned Parenthood clinic recently I was thinking to myself how hard it must be for a young woman to decid...
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Doesn't buy state's financial maneuversApr 09, 2010 11:00 pm - We have sunk to a new low in the state of Illinois. Residents are now being held hostage as they ask us to buckle under to another increase in taxes. Our state governmen...
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Have a heart; donate organsApr 09, 2010 11:00 pm - April is National Donate Life Month, a time to encourage people to join the Illinois donor registry. Nearly 4,700 Illinoisans are in need of lifesaving organ transplants...
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Quinn's education plan not so direApr 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Once again we are being threatened by our own supposed representatives in government. If we refuse their proposed tax increases, they say, they will irreparably damage o...
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Saturday Soapbox: Listen on Molly, EvanApr 09, 2010 11:00 pm - 'Work hard, follow your dream': No one can bring that message home better than people like local Olympians Evan Lysacek and Molly Schaus and, more recently, Glenb...
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Family grateful for health care reformApr 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Our family is particularly grateful to all the members of Congress who voted for health care reform, but particularly to Bill Foster. With all the antagonism coming from...