Burlington Opinion
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There's no boogeyman in government-run health careJun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - The battle over health care reform is heating up. Ads are running warning of the "dangers" of a government-run health plan. The truth is a government-run health plan is ...
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Urge legislators to pass tax increaseJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Like the rest of the country, our state's economy is in trouble. As a result, families are hurting in these challenging times. Like all citizens, I don't want to spend m...
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Look at success of adult stem cell workJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - What a great article I just read: An Aurora city employee donates bone marrow, and a youngster's life is saved by it. Fantastic. Bone marrow transplants have been aroun...
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One bad read on health care solutionJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - After reading Terry Gavin's derision of Al Kirkland's article about reforming the health care system to cover everyone and eliminate the insurance companies' profit, I s...
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Be proactive against pesky mosquitoesJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Two sure signs of summer are expected to surface this week - one welcome, one not so. Meteorologists say the warmer weather we've been craving after what seemed to be a ...
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Society will suffer from budget cutsJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Recently, a state legislator told me that he couldn't vote for a tax increase because he didn't know how the additional revenues would be spent. He voiced the understand...
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Wisdom from the mouths of babesJun 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Conversation at my favorite restaurant can be lively or boring. Sometimes points are argued to tedium. No room at the counter, I was forced to have a late breakfast in o...
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Get your pets spayed or neuteredJun 19, 2009 11:00 pm - A particular breed of dog is not at fault when usually off-leash, off-property attacks occur. How to control aggressive wayward dogs, male and female, when owners don't ...
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Why can't I celebrate, too?Jun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - I cannot believe what I have just read. A congressman proposes a "Year of the Bible" and so many people are going ballistic. I don't understand. The one critic I want to...
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Let's hope signs of confidence just a startJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Nothing begets confidence like confidence. We've been in a collective clench for so long as businesses enormous and small have gone bankrupt or closed, jobs have been st...