Bolingbrook Opinion
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Partnership can save millions of dollarsNov 07, 2011 4:00 am - Due to concerns over rising juvenile crime in the 1990s, counties acted quickly to mitigate this public safety threat by constructing juvenile detention facilities to ho...
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Stop the presses! It’s Tea Party, not tea partyNov 06, 2011 7:00 am - Let me announce that from this day forward, it is the Tea Party. Not the tea party. At least in the Daily Herald, where we made the decision to depart from The Associate...
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Corporate greed day of reckoning at handNov 06, 2011 5:00 am - The occupation of Wall Street demonstrations are continuing to expand and spread throughout the country and beyond our national borders. They appear to have legs, strong...
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Does the right see no clues here?Nov 05, 2011 6:06 am - In response to Martin J. Uttich’s Nov. 2 Fence Post letter (Does the left see no clues here?) on our energy policy (more drilling), let’s see. Per one report on fracking...
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Do the math again on teacher pensionsNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - Fence Post contributor Al Palash (Oct. 27) told another contributor — who wrote about teacher pensions — to “do the math.” Palash should do his math again, but this time...
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Good call on debit card fee protestNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - To all of you who chose to respond by taking action against Bank of America’s debit card fee charges, I applaud each of you. You and you alone made a statement to the Am...
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Congress quite comfy with single digitsNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - The CBS News poll showing support for Congress has dropped to an abysmal 9 percent may dismay an electorate expecting solutions from that august body; but stirs not a qu...
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Why turn away prospective nurses?Nov 05, 2011 6:06 am - In speaking of the goal of most liberal arts colleges, a friend of mine used to say that they said, “If you can get a job when you graduate, we have failed you.” The Occ...
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The SoapboxNov 05, 2011 5:00 am - Leading by example: Avon Township residents watching their budgets got some tax help from Supervisor Sam Yingling and five political allies who recently presented a chec...
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What have you done for middle class?Nov 04, 2011 5:00 am - I (and I assume everyone in the 6th Congressional District) got a very attractive four color, oversized card in the mail with the cheerful headline “Illinois Seniors — S...