Carol Stream Opinion
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How much pain is GOP ready to inflict?Jul 20, 2017 12:01 am - What Americans want is for their health care needs to be fully met at an affordable cost. Simply having freedom to access insurance is clearly not enough. Plans must cov...
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GOP lawmakers caved to enemies of reformJul 16, 2017 12:01 am - There are so few Republicans in the Illinois legislature that their votes make a difference only when a super majority is required. But some Republicans (David Harris, M...
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Public schools not a commodity to be bought and soldJul 14, 2017 1:00 am - As citizens, we need to be wary and vigilant as we hear Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Washington continue to champion charter schools and school choice as the cure...
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How much pork in state's new budget?Jul 13, 2017 12:01 am - Well, Springfield does it again. More taxes, no reforms. I would be interested in the amount of "pork" in this so-called budget, and who benefits from it and how they vo...
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Why we're losing manufacturing jobsJul 08, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump is on track to provide funds to revive manual training schools. A lot of our manufacturing jobs are exported for one simple reason, that being we sorely ...
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When will the left 'walk the talk'?Jul 08, 2017 1:00 am - Kathy Griffin's bloody head, the assassination of Julius Caesar (aka DJT) in Central Park, Snoop Dogg's rap and now the actual attempted murder of a congressman. Does an...
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GOP plan economically short-sighted, tooJul 05, 2017 1:00 am - Your life is worth only $1,500, and so is mine. The CBO scored the U.S. Senate's GOP health care bill this week. Its scoring showed the U.S. deficit would be reduced by ...
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Banning 'religions,' creates new onesJul 05, 2017 1:00 am - In response to Hadiya Afzal's letter on the separation of church and state. Ironically, because of the drive to separate church and state, we're doing the very thing the...
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Good reason to place people over profitsJul 03, 2017 1:00 am - Governor Rauner, like President Trump and most GOP politicians, is the very embodiment of government as the problem rather than the solution. Instead of representing th...
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Can justice be obstructed without a crime?Jul 03, 2017 1:00 am - Notice how the Senate Intelligence (?) Committee for all its hand-wringing about Russian collusion, failed to even use the word in its grilling of Attorney General Jeff ...