Burlington Opinion
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Unions created middle classJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - Union membership has never been more than 30 percent of the workforce. What that 30 percent did was establish the middle class by raising wages, creating a 40-hour workw...
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Eat like your ancestors didJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - Because we are all “programmed” with certain beliefs, we tend to do things over and over without much thought. Much of what we hear, and go on to believe, is out of date...
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Gee, thanks for calling tow truckJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - To the person who called the towing company to remove my car from a desolate lot — my car was parked in the vacant lot behind the Beehive Tavern & Grill in order to tran...
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No easy way to tackle deficitJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - Fence Post writer Bill Sarto is wrong. He worries about having to cut benefits in future “entitlement” payments to future recipients. The U.S. is broke. IOUs from Congre...
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Our property tax system has run amokJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - I was at the Sun City-Huntley meeting on July 18 listening to all of the trauma about how high Kane County taxes were. All I know is I live in Sun City in Grafton Townsh...
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GOP hypocritical on Libyan involvementJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - The same Republicans who supported the invasion of Iraq based on Bush’s lies now call Obama “evasive” by flying support missions over Libya. What a bunch of self-serving...
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Hold Obama to same standardJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - The governor of New Jersey used a state helicopter to attend his son’s ballgame. When called out, he rightly paid this personal expense. Please tell me why Obama did not...
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Enough with the 4th-grade humorJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - Seriously? There have been a plethora of jokes on the daily news and entertainment shows about former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the majority of them poking fun of his ...
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Ed. foundation big help for teachersJun 20, 2011 2:00 pm - I wish to publicly thank the Greater St. Charles Education Foundation for honoring my art classroom with a gift of an LCD projector. I recently submitted a grant to the ...
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Trump making noise for the DemocratsJun 19, 2011 12:00 am - When Donald Trump started making noise about the birth certificate of Obama, I knew there was no real point to it. He had an American mother, so he was a natural born ci...