Carpentersville Opinion
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Bailout unfair to responsible onesMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - I have done everything I was supposed to do all my life. I studied hard, got good grades, graduated from college, taught school for 37 years, saved my money, invested wi...
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2nd Amendment rights are in dangerMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Today (Feb. 26) in an Associated Press news release on the U.S. crackdown of Mexican drug cartels Attorney General Eric Holder calls for reinstituting a ban of so called...
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Festival cutbacks aren't wisest choiceMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just a few days ago in this space, we urged suburban residents to resist the temptation to let fear of this wretched economy get the best of us. Rather than hunkering d...
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Illegal immigration saps our resourcesMar 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Now that the economy has tanked, the federal government is mortgaging our children's future. The state is billions over budget and talking about raising taxes or drastic...
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We need better money managersMar 06, 2009 10:00 pm - I'm with Robert Chmela (Elgin) and Bob Allen (Huntley). Not only am I down right upset but thoroughly embarrassed. The people of Illinois as well as the entire country h...
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Praise for people, postal serviceMar 06, 2009 10:00 pm - I dropped a feral female cat off at the vet to be spayed and vaccinated, and picked her up on my way to work the next day. I was in a hurry and evidently dropped the rab...
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Obama's solutions might be problematicMar 06, 2009 10:00 pm - President Obama certainly has had many ideas so far, but I think some of his plans are at cross purposes; they actually work against each other. Now he says he is conce...
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Thanks to Dundee leaders for open spaceMar 05, 2009 10:00 pm - Regardless of the outcome of the Republican primary, Sue Harney and the rest of the Dundee Township board should be commended for their accomplishments in expanding open...
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Stimulus packages just wasteful frillsMar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - I am voicing my disappointment with both U.S. Representatives for our area, Bill Foster and Melissa Bean, for supporting the recent $787 billion pork bill. Where this bi...
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Carpentersville lights need synchronizingMar 02, 2009 10:00 pm - I am an early morning commuter driving from Carpentersville to Itasca daily. There have been times that my husband and I have sat in the eastbound turn lane from Route 2...