Bloomingdale Opinion
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State pensioners are the victimsMay 17, 2013 4:40 am - State pensioners are the victims One wonders why our legislators and the Daily Herald do not focus on the initial promise made by the state to the employee when fir...
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Average wage earner needs definition, tooMay 16, 2013 4:40 am - Average wage earner needs definition, too In a recent letter (Depends on your definition of “rich,” May 11), the writer claims to be “an average American paying abo...
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Benghazi will just impede Clinton’s runMay 16, 2013 4:40 am - For anyone old enough to remember Watergate, Benghazigate affirms that history repeats itself. The Obama administration’s stonewalling of the American public confirms th...
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Huge price to be cops of the worldMay 15, 2013 4:00 am - No more Mr. Nice Guy. I'm going to say it. People like Richard Cohen need to give up his citizenship and move to Isreal or Palestine or Egypt. Regarding his May 1 colum...
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Fishermen must clean up their actMay 15, 2013 4:00 am - Now that the weather is warming up and summer vacation is right around the corner, those fishing poles are being put to use again. Along with fishing comes garbage being...
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Column on ‘work beasts’ lacks good evidenceMay 09, 2013 5:00 am - Ms. Harrop, your April 28 crusade for the “work beasts,” as is usually the case in these sorts of debates, makes several overly broad and essentially erroneous assertion...
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Editorial: Expedite federal help for flood victimsMay 07, 2013 9:28 am - The floodwaters are receding and what’s left behind in some communities across the region isn’t pretty. Muck, thousands of used sandbags, soggy carpeting, wet drywall, d...
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President’s wealth is no secretMay 07, 2013 4:40 am - President’s wealth is no secret A recent letter (Mike Simon, April 27) compares the 15 percent of adjusted gross income paid in income tax by Mitt Romney with 18 pe...
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The SoapboxMay 04, 2013 5:00 am - Preckwinkle warms to our suburbs: On Tuesday, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle attended a luncheon in Palatine to speak to Northwest suburban business leader...
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Editorial: A healthy dose of inspirationMay 03, 2013 5:00 am - Sometimes, it seems like life has you stuck in place. Something’s not going right, and it’s hard to see a way through all the obstacles to getting back on track. That’s ...