Batavia Opinion
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Green Lanes just another boondoggleSep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Thank you for your front page story on the Illinois Tollway's proposed $1.8 billion Green Lanes project. Green Lanes sounded like a boondoggle when first announced and y...
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Thanks for help with Crayons for KidsSep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - On behalf of Marmion Academy's Crayons for Kids Program, I would like to thank the extremely generous patrons of 10 area Jewel-Osco stores. Over two weekends in August, ...
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Let's bring our companies backSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - We have all watched how our politicians have destroyed jobs over the last 40 years with the overtaxing and overregulating of our industries - watching jobs and companies...
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I'll make my future with my own moneySep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - What a great idea! Conservative patriots should drop their tea bags and put their money where their mouths are! Seniors and veterans should cancel their Medicare coverag...
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Hampshire reading program a successSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - The Ella Johnson Library would like to thank all of our participants from this year's summer reading program Read on the Wild Side. We had over 500 readers this year, wh...
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Read about Hubert Thompson before you vote to cut mental health careSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Read before you vote: Before voting to cut mental health care, we want state lawmakers to read about mentally ill Hubert Thompson's sentence in the murder of James Malo...
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Impeach Obama before it's too lateSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - There must be some sensible legal device whereby Barack Obama can be removed from the White House before 2012. His presence as President bodes imminent danger to this na...
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Cosmic retribution for drunken driversSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - An article by Josh Stockinger about the death of a Batavia man and his dog has prompted this letter. I realize this is, by now, old news but submit it because I believe ...
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The morass that is the federal governmentSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - On Aug. 22 I sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), concerning an issue with the right rearview ...
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Try helping rather than complainingSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Reading the article in the Herald entitled "Is 'green' home polluting neighborhood?" made me sad as I am such a booster of Habitat for Humanity that builds homes for peo...