Buffalo Grove Opinion
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Family, not guns, is the issueJun 23, 2016 1:00 am - In May and June, I've heard many people in the Chicago area say that Chicago needs more gun control laws, but gun control laws don't decrease the murder rate. In Chicag...
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Whatever else he did, Ali was draft dodgerJun 16, 2016 1:00 am - Muhammad Ali may have been a good boxer but he will always be a draft dodger as long as I live. I served five campaigns in Vietnam and one in Korea while he refused to d...
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Tollway should stop spending on Route 53 studyJun 06, 2016 1:00 am - Livable Lake County and its members agree with the editorial on May 24th ("Troubling Signs with Route 53's extension at a crossroads") that members of the Illinois tollw...
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Specter of Route 53 stymies creative solutionsJun 04, 2016 1:00 am - Innovative traffic congestion solutions in Lake County are being held hostage to an outdated, unaffordable and environmentally devastating Route 53/120 extension plan. ...
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Republicans reap what they've sownJun 04, 2016 1:00 am - House Speaker Ryan recently complained that the Democrats voted down the Republican appropriations bill as an act of "sabotage," as he described it. Imagine that! After ...
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Is Rt. 53 study just a ploy?Jun 03, 2016 1:00 am - We urge the tollway board to desist: No Environmental Impact Study! To keep insisting on the EIS despite that the 53 project does not have and never had the majority sup...
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Find new alternatives for Lake gridlockMay 19, 2016 1:00 am - It is apparent that the Route 53 extension north of Lake-Cook Road is all but dead. Therefore, Lake County must consider other options to alleviate the daily gridlock on...
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Editorial: Voters have chance to drop an archaic school positionMay 11, 2016 11:00 pm - Every few years, Cook County residents are reminded that their county supports the last vestige of one of the most archaic layers of government in modern times. These ar...
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Term limits protect against others' candidatesMay 10, 2016 1:00 am - In a recent letter to the editor, the writer disparages the notion of term limits as "telling me that I'm not smart enough to vote out poor elected officials ..." Term l...
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Pros of term limits outweigh the consMay 09, 2016 1:00 am - I would like to believe that Theodore Utchen (May 5) is an informed voter. However, some politicians use questionable - think Madigan - tactics to stay in office. While ...