Carpentersville Opinion
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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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Destruction of a once-great cityJan 08, 2013 3:20 am - Destruction of a once-great city Once again representatives of the city of Chicago are trying to punish the rest of Illinois for the city’s failure to control crime...
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Congress deserves minimum wageJan 07, 2013 1:04 pm - Congress deserves minimum wage The performance of the Congress and the White House in the recent Over the Cliff farce certainly has to rank in one of the sorriest e...
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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 ...
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Make decisions, make compromiseJan 06, 2013 3:37 am - Make decisions, make compromise I guess the folks in Springfield and Washington don’t really get it. To put it bluntly: You are messing with my life ... not yours, ...
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Protect ourselves — and our childrenJan 06, 2013 3:37 am - Protect ourselves — and our children All Americans hearts have been wounded by the murders of the children and teachers in Newtown, Conn. This was a senseless act o...
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The SoapboxJan 05, 2013 4:00 am - Just walk the extra steps: Pretending to be disabled to get a good parking spot is pretty low, but it’s rampant enough that a new state law cracks down on using the disa...
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Editorial: Need grows for suburban group homesJan 03, 2013 4:00 am - Drive down the streets in Naperville’s Historic District and you will see large, beautiful homes in an idyllic suburban setting. But one of those houses is a home for tr...