Buffalo Grove Opinion
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Public option foes should look at factsSep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Nearly 46 million Americans are uninsured, and two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies are due to health care costs. People are suffering and dying because of the failur...
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Writer lacks heart in health care positionSep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - In his recent letter to the editor, Jeff Lonigro wrote: "No one has a right to medical care, education, or government redistribution of wealth programs known as welfare....
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Health care isn't our biggest problemSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Dear Mr. President Obama, Health care reform, at this time when our economy is barely above water, I believe, is a misplaced priority in your administration. Americans d...
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Look past protests for health care factsSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Representative Biggert admitted her health care comments were "a little inflammatory." Actually her comments were worse than that - they were lies. The current health c...
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We must continue fighting both warsSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Reader Anthony Nelson decries Obama's "failure" to pull American troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. He calls this a failure, I suppose, in the belief that simply retrea...
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Terrorist gets chance no victims receivedSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Ten years ago, my husband and I attended a convocation for 35 of Syracuse University's "best and brightest" students, blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, whil...
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Use sensitivity in school-faith mattersSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Friday night football, a staple in high school culture, may have been missing a few more players than usual last week. As teams took to the field in many suburbs, observ...
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Strong language can incite violenceSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Words do matter. Words can soothe. Words can help promote healing. Words can also hurt, promote hatred and issue calls for vengeance. The anti-abortion bunch preach thei...
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Leaders needed to fix health careSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Although we may narrowly escape having over 1,000 unread pages of health care imposed upon us, the fact remains that our health care system is still badly in need of ref...
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Let communities pay for own policeSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Sen. Durbin boasts in the Fence Post that Congress put $1 billion into the COPS Program and he supports a proposal for another $3 billion. And he suggests that Elgin and...