Bloomingdale Opinion
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Why doesn’t he get right first time?Oct 06, 2012 4:47 am - Why doesn’t he get right first time? How is it that Governor Romney only rarely manages to say the first time what he later says he really meant? Imagine how this w...
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Don’t tax me for charter schoolOct 06, 2012 4:40 am - Immediately below is the last paragraph of a recent letter to the editor by Kari White, Secretary, Elgin Charter School Initiative. “We are now reaching out to U-46 and ...
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JFK understood our potentialOct 04, 2012 1:09 pm - Who was John Kennedy and what did he stand for? Kennedy said 1962 at the New York Economic Club: “It’s a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues a...
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FDR’s ‘New Deal’ and Mussolini rootsOct 03, 2012 4:39 am - FDR’s ‘New Deal’ and Mussolini roots A Fence Post commentary of Sept. 17, “Republicans trying to have it both ways,” rekindles the Great Depression era when this se...
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More to geese than their messesOct 03, 2012 4:39 am - More to geese than their messes As I walked back to my car after a second attempt to help save an injured goose that was laying in a muddy pond, I thought about whe...
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The SoapboxSep 29, 2012 5:00 am - Oooh, that smell: One suggestion for those who might be in the situation described by the neighbors of William Tinkler, the Elgin man who police say had been storing dea...
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Mitt’s contradiction on tax-payingSep 27, 2012 4:15 am - Mitt’s contradiction on taxpaying With regard to his own income tax returns, Mitt Romney posited that the American electorate surely would not want a president who ...
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Support fight against breast cancerSep 26, 2012 4:50 am - Support fight against breast cancer Did you know that one out of every two women newly diagnosed with breast cancer reaches out to the American Cancer Society for h...
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‘Winning’ in favor of meeting standards?Sep 23, 2012 4:46 am - ‘Winning’ in favor of meeting standards? Our family received a letter from the administration of West Chicago Community High School informing us that “For the past ...
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We all have to pay for the deficitSep 23, 2012 4:46 am - We all have to pay for the deficit Ms. Niesman asked in her Sept. 14 commentary “Roskam, Ryan two peas in a pod,” which by the way was weak on facts and strong on c...