Burlington Opinion
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Thanks for holiday pantry donationsJan 17, 2013 3:40 am - Thanks for holiday pantry donations All People’s Interfaith Pantry at 256 E. Chicago St., Elgin would like to send a sincere thank you to all who donated food to th...
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Why so many guns in the first place?Jan 17, 2013 3:40 am - The events at Newtown have resulted in a search for why it happened. All we have done is trot out our two favorite whipping boys: guns and mental illness. These are only...
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Tell of all the ‘pork’ in Sandy relief billJan 17, 2013 3:40 am - Tell of all the ‘pork’ in Sandy relief bill Like all news organizations you are not printing what is in the hurricane Sandy relief bill. You could do yourself a big...
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Collapse of global-warming industryJan 15, 2013 3:09 am - First, I do not agree with the extent that the global warming has gone. What’s not reported is when it is shown to be wrong. Lord Christopher Monckton, former advisor to...
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Many families made happy this holidayJan 14, 2013 3:30 am - On behalf of the Hanover Township officials and all the staff and volunteers of our Welfare Services department, I would like to thank the community for their outpouring...
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‘Entitlements’ need individual solutionsJan 12, 2013 4:00 am - Congressmen generally use the umbrella phrase of “entitlements” as the cause and cure of our national deficit problem. Occasionally they list the three largest ones: Soc...
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Bigger problem: gun control or abortion?Jan 08, 2013 3:20 am - Bigger problem: gun control or abortion? What happened in Connecticut was horrific. The shameless pandering of what happened by gun control advocates to push their ...
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Let’s make this a better year for allJan 07, 2013 1:02 pm - Let’s make this a better year for all As an avid reader of the Daily Herald and especially the editorial page, I was impressed with “Our View” on Jan. 2. The “Resol...
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Editorial: Take flu precautions for yourself, othersJan 07, 2013 4:00 am - Gesundheit! Now go home. Yes, and get some rest and drink plenty of fluids. And if you aren’t sneezing or coughing yet, your lungs and nasal passages clogged with conges...
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Lawmakers, here's a bill you really could get behindJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Excerpt from an official, top-secret, confidential internal memo I fired off to the bosses this past week: “This is too late to help us this time around, but I think we ...