Burlington Opinion
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Without any food, climate won't matterApr 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Gas prices at an all time high and food prices going up. We are putting food in our gas tank. How crazy are we? We have oil in Alaska we cannot drill for, a new find of...
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Frontier violated basic escrow rulesApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - When Frontier Airlines declared bankruptcy, it mentioned higher fuel costs, less traffic and that its credit card processor was withholding more money for advanced ticke...
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Animal shelter gets government fundsApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - In a recent article about the need for homes for barn cats at Anderson Animal Shelter, it was mentioned that Anderson receives no government funding. Yet it does. It ha...
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State budget impasse must be resolvedApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently I joined with my colleagues in the state Senate to pass a plan for ending the bitter budget debate that has plagued Springfield for the better part of a year no...
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Animal shelter gets government fundsApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Animal shelter gets government funds In a recent article about the need for homes for barn cats at Anderson Animal Shelter, it was mentioned that Anderson receives no go...
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No Olympic venues on our local landsApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - No Olympic venues on our local lands Regarding the April 8 Daily Herald story on new candidates opposing incumbent commissioners, we at Voters For Preservation believe o...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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Saturday Soapbox: Thanks for thinking of themApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the lesser publicized aspects of John and Rita Canning's generous donation to Northwest Community Hospital is worth a closer look. Part of their $1 million contri...
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Saturday Soapbox: Old pols never leaveApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When longtime Kane County Board member Jan Carlson of Elburn stepped down early, resigning from the board this week after being defeated in the Republican primary, he le...