Burlington Opinion
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Overstuffed classes alter learning, futureDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - The current overcrowding in classrooms needs to be made known. I believe there are too many people unaware of the current situations in our schools. As a student and th...
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Trade deals at core of immigration messDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - To genuinely stop illegal immigration, we need to change the rules of economic globalization. Otherwise, no matter how big a fence we build at the border, how strictly w...
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White reveals self with choice of wordsDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - David White still doesn't get it. The statements in his latest letter alone are evidence not only of the racist undertone of his purported "survey," but also of his skew...
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Overstuffed classes alter learning, futureDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - The current overcrowding in classrooms needs to be made known. I believe there are too many people unaware of the current situations in our schools. As a student and th...
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Un-American to fix immigration issueDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - The debate over immigration has become one of the more heated topics in today's popular game of politics. The perception of immigration needs to be improved if this coun...
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More trains will hurt BarringtonDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - To the editor: The Canadian National Rail Corp. has purchased the Elgin Joliet and Eastern RR (The "J') from United States Steel. They want to upgrade the line and incre...
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Tax tales only add to senior travailsDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - When we moved to the Del Webb community Huntley, we were told taxes would be about $3,000 a year. The tax bill just finished paying in September was $7,800. Like many se...
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The good news John Drury never told you aboutDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - For a man whose bread always seemed to be buttered with cold, hard facts, anchorman John Drury was nourished by a much softer spread in the last 18 years of his life. La...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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U-46 teachers, board must get fair deal doneDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - That slight bubbling in the pit of longtime Elgin Area School District U-46 residents' stomachs isn't due to holiday excess. It's the knowledge that an unsettled distric...