Carpentersville Opinion
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Good sense and free speech lost amid all the contrived rancorApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Even after nearly a quarter-century in the news business, there remain moments when I want to stand on my desk screaming, "Have you people lost your ever-lovin' minds?" ...
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No Olympic venues on our local landsApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - No Olympic venues on our local lands Regarding the April 8 Daily Herald story on new candidates opposing incumbent commissioners, we at Voters For Preservation believe o...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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Saturday Soapbox: Thanks for thinking of themApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the lesser publicized aspects of John and Rita Canning's generous donation to Northwest Community Hospital is worth a closer look. Part of their $1 million contri...
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Don't create forest out of a single treeApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Regarding the incident involving Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski. I believe this isan overreaction as well as an opportunity to cause alarm in the midst...
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Saturday Soapbox: Old pols never leaveApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When longtime Kane County Board member Jan Carlson of Elburn stepped down early, resigning from the board this week after being defeated in the Republican primary, he le...
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Oberweis, Lincoln comparison bizarreApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I choked a bit on my coffee Sunday morning reading L. Dean Hufsey's letter equating Jim Oberweis' candidacies to Abraham Lincoln's. Lincoln's first run for state office...
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Good men must not do nothingApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - I cannot describe the disappointment I feel regarding the lack of leadership and integrity of the Carpentersville Village Board. Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski recently...
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Rights for the illegal, but not neighbors?Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski wants to bestow upon illegal aliens the same rights we enjoy as U.S. citizens, yet she has a problem with American childr...