Burlington Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: Should stay onAug 24, 2007 11:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert has sidestepped questions about whether he will retire early from office. He should stay on until the end, if only to prevent a special election...
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Imagining legislators on election stumpAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Imagine a current Illinois lawmaker, campaigning to run again, speaking to a large gathering of his constituency: "I come to you today with a heavy and humble heart in a...
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Arellano did plenty that was wrongAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Elvira Arellano was finally arrested, and to show how far we have gotten away from laws in this country, she and her friends claim she has done nothing wrong. She used ...
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Metra needs money to keep runningAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - So ridership keeps going up on Metra and more and more suburban commuters are opting for trains rather than cars in this era of high gas prices and increasing road conge...
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Wild assumptions about health careAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Where does Richard Rohlfing get his "facts" about health care in America? Maybe from Michael Moore, but wherever he gets them, he should list his sources. First claims t...
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Soapbox: This aud-it do it in Dist. 303Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - A very good idea has emerged in the St. Charles school district, where officials have instructed auditors doing their annual work to break down and report specifically h...
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Skip 'race game' on illegal immigrationAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - The immigration debate in Carpentersville is becoming simply ridiculous. Residents of the village who are attempting to stop crimes linked with the flood of illegal alie...
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On Texan leaders, inept bureaucraciesAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - We have had two presidents from Texas in recent history. Lyndon Baines Johnson had us embroiled in a no-win war in Vietnam. As the death toll rose and the sentiment on t...
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Soapbox: Sickening swims; benefits of publicity?Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Anybody but us think it shouldn't take an Illinois Department of Public Health warning to know it isn't wise to let pets cavort in human swimming pools? Yet some pet lov...
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Jones acting like a politician at the end of his runAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - If this year's legislative session is any indication, Democratic Senate President Emil Jones Jr. appears like a politician at the end of his run. The old-school lawmaker...