Batavia Opinion
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Preserve melting pot with ethnic quotasAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - In the Aug. 9 issue, “The melting pot and the Latino identity,” Esther Cepeda attempts a balanced view of Latino-American issues. Unfortunately, much of the problems wit...
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Require budgetary promise for your voteAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - How can we return our Congress to the status it enjoyed 30 years ago? At present it is being controlled by lobbyists to an unacceptable degree. This practice must end. T...
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Dems should stop childish blame gameAug 11, 2011 12:00 am - Last February after the assassination attempt on Gabby Giffords, Obama called for a new civil tone. I guess the liberals/Democrats refuse to listen to their own elected ...
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Bike for Life a big successAug 11, 2011 12:00 am - By all accounts, the first Elgin Bike for Life event July 10 was a success. More than $6,000 in proceeds will go toward purchasing bike racks for elementary schools in E...
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Half of us living in denialAug 11, 2011 12:00 am - A recent CNN survey of more than 1,000 adults found that 51 percent thought that not increasing the debt ceiling would have little to no harm on the economy. Business le...
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Animal control not a drain on taxpayersAug 10, 2011 4:00 am - I would like to comment on your Aug. 3 article about Kane County Animal Control. I served on the KCAC Animal Control Task Force as a representative of Metro West Council...
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Let's solve our hunger challenge nowAug 08, 2011 12:00 am - It's easy to imagine how it starts. First, you're laid off. Then begins the sad scramble to apply for unemployment aid. Even with that, you face figuring out whether to ...
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Handicapped spots are for handicapped peopleAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - I’ve just come from the Huntley Post Office. There is one handicapped parking space in front of the post office, on the east side of Woodstock Street, facing north. A bl...
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Unpaid child support tells us who Walsh isAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - I just read Mrs. (U.S. Congressman) Joe Walsh’s December 2010 verified petition for $115,000 of unpaid child support. It is 55 pages, with exhibits. It says that Joe sti...
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Thanks for the Dow nosedive, tea partyAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - The people of the whole world held their collective breath while the tea party took our financial future hostage by manufacturing a crisis. In resolving the hysteria, Sp...