Buffalo Grove Opinion
-
We all end up paying for itMar 23, 2012 5:40 am - Apart from constitutional and moral issues, Barack Obama’s edict that everyone be provided contraception and abortion and insurance companies will cover it is no differe...
-
Why we’re losing the education battleMar 23, 2012 5:00 am - The March 4 article on the U-46 “grade-in” demonstrates several of the problems and the Elgin teachers union’s backward solution to them. An experienced kindergarten tea...
-
There’s still place for Santorum’s viewsMar 23, 2012 5:00 am - With regard to the March 4 editorial (Our View — Primary 2012), I would like to take exception to the statement “Santorum (former Sen. Rick Santorum) would turn back the...
-
Obama should take action on gas pricesMar 23, 2012 5:00 am - It is obvious that this administration either doesn’t have a clue what do about the escalating gas prices or just don’t have the political will to act. Since President O...
-
Furlough legislation not strong enoughMar 22, 2012 4:28 am - Your editorial in the March 11 edition that discussed the reduction of pay for state legislators was misleading. The pay reduction comments were most likely grounded in ...
-
Free birth control for poor neededMar 22, 2012 4:28 am - I applaud President Barack Obama for facing the need for birth control. Single-parent homes are unable to support a family. Welfare and food stamps are a strain on the f...
-
Reduce the rate of global warmingMar 22, 2012 4:28 am - I think most of us will agree that our earth is surrounded by a thin fragile atmosphere which we live and breath in. It has a finite amount of volume and is similar to a...
-
Little choice, but some options, on golf courseMar 21, 2012 11:34 am - The Lake County Forest Preserve District Board finds itself in a political sand trap over its decision not to build a golf course at the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve. T...
-
Salaries, pensions strap universitiesMar 21, 2012 5:00 am - In a Fence Post letter of March 5, a University of Illinois-Chicago official, Mr. Mark Rosati, attempted to justify tuition increases at the College of Medicine. He stat...
-
Hasten withdrawal from AfghanistanMar 20, 2012 1:00 am - Thank you for publishing stories about the tragic killing of Afghan civilians last week. The soldier who allegedly committed these killings is another victim of a faile...