Batavia Opinion
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Thanks to many on storm cleanupAug 25, 2012 4:14 am - Thanks to many on storm cleanup The July 1 microburst ravaged approximately 20 miles of road in unincorporated Winfield Township, leaving residents with huge amount...
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Get income tax code fixedAug 24, 2012 4:40 am - The United States Income Tax Code is more than 70,000 pages and the pages between the binders do not show how to pay income taxes but how to avoid paying them. This appl...
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Editorial: Turnaround at Lake County Fair encouragingAug 14, 2012 5:00 am - The attendance figures for the 84th annual Lake County Fair, which ended a couple of weeks ago, won’t knock anyone’s socks off. A total of 91,548 visitors, up about 2.8 ...
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Troubled by ECC public safety, truck schoolsAug 14, 2012 4:40 am - The Burlington village board OK’d a conceptual plan for ECC’s vision of a regional public safety and sustainability facility. We the people voted to approve a $178 milli...
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Editorial: A road map to transparencyAug 07, 2012 5:00 am - When Lombard Village Trustee Peter Breen was elected in April 2011, he made transparency in village government a priority. It’s no wonder then that Lombard now is a mode...
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Relay For Life almost hits goalJul 29, 2012 4:40 am - On behalf of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Kane County committee, I would like to say “Wow!” Thanks to your support, Relay For Life of Kane County had 75...
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Letter to McConnaughayJul 29, 2012 4:00 am - Open letter to Kane County Board Chairman Karen McConnaughay: I can see firsthand that any citizen in the county that would dare at this critical economic juncture to qu...
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GOP must attack taxes in health care actJul 19, 2012 4:40 am - If the GOP expects to retake the White House, regain control of the Senate and keep the majority in the House, they had better start thinking of the voter and not their ...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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Ethics law would bring taxes downJul 08, 2012 4:40 am - Recently, I received my property tax bill, and like everyone else, I was shocked and disgusted by the fact that my property values had gone done by 30 percent and my tax...