Bolingbrook Opinion
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Stroger makes bad tax proposal worseOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Try as we might, we don't think we could describe Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's proposed myriad tax increases any better than Commissioner Tim Schneider did...
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Soapbox:A good thought for all schoolsOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - No matter what field an elementary student chooses to study as he or she gets older and no matter what profession he or she eventually chooses, few skills will better se...
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Soapbox: A bad precedent hereOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Arguing that creating a new town is a lot of work seems a bit bizarre when the person making the argument is Patsy Smith, the woman who led incorporation efforts and the...
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Soapbox: Learn from a lucky breakOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Randall Visor should feel lucky. The Batavia man, who is responsible for the deaths of four people 10 years ago in a drunken-driving accident, and for driving without a ...
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Soapbox: Slow it downOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - State transportation officials say a stretch of Route 83 through Prospect Heights has neither enough accidents nor driveways to merit lowering the speed limit from 40 mp...
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Appalling display of racism in LombardOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - A terrible incident took place the morning of Oct. 8. A family who recently moved to Lombard had racial slurs and attacks painted on their property. However, this is not...
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Should Bob be more like Todd?Oct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Perhaps Bob Schillerstrom should be more like Todd Stroger. Stroger, the Cook County Board chairman, wants to bail out the county from its financial morass by doubling t...
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Stop the next war before it even startsOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Despite the fact that the vast majority of Americans want U.S. troops out of Iraq, the Bush administration is banging the drum for next war, which would target Iran. The...
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Diluting the power of moment of silenceOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Like any large suburban high school, Neuqua Valley has had its moments of tragedy. Most recently, we've lost several members of our learning community including Roosevel...
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Pointing fingers at the wrong peopleOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Joni Blackman's Oct. 13 column seemingly casts blame on further divisiveness in Indian Prairie Unit District 204. Is it fair to point fingers at the taxpayers who defea...