Buffalo Grove Opinion
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Shed a tear over immigration processOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Recently, I heard two different perspectives on immigration. First, I listened to the story of two women who escaped from Communist Europe during the 1960s and waited in...
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Think about your political silenceOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - If you are upset about current goings-on in Washington, D. C., whether "conservative" or "liberal," or somewhere in between and you have not voiced your concern to your ...
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Illinois at brink of disasterOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - It is far worse than you think. Illinois is totally bankrupt. Our state has more debt per capita than any other state in the union. We are on a par with Greece and the T...
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A little Dickens in reverseOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - A very unusual thing happened to me recently. We all remember Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" where Scrooge is a miserly self-centered man with no concern for the less-fort...
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Find candidates who favor gun rightsOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Second Amendment rights There are three potential candidates on the Democratic side possibly running for mayor of the city of Chicago. They are Forrest Claypool, Tom Dar...
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Our flag deserves much more respectOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - American people, my question is: Why do we as Americans always have to be tolerant of everyone? Our flag is being burned, walked on and ripped to shreds not just in oth...
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Not Rauschenberger's seat to reclaimSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I strongly object to the wording in Kerry Lester's article, in the Sept. 23 issue, about Steve Rauschenberger. Lester refers to Rauschenberger's bid to, "reclaim his old...
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Cuts still a priority in local spendingSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - At a time in Illinois when politicians everywhere seem to turn us off and tune us out, a rare, refreshing thing happened this week. Trustees in Schaumburg fulfilled two ...
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Death penalty no deterrent to murderSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I couldn't agree more with your Sept. 27 editorial. A moratorium on executions "is not the final answer." The only final answer that makes public policy sense is to abo...
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Munson will guard your pocketbookSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Ruth Munson is the logical choice for state representative. Ruth has walked the walk from her years on Elgin's city council through her years as state representative tak...