Deerfield Opinion
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Why the royal treatment for Blago?Dec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Congratulations for “Blago.” How wonderful, an extra month of freedom before you start your supposed 14-year sentence for corruption. How nice of Judge Zagel granting hi...
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Schools must live within their meansDec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Before the ink gets dry on my morning Herald, let me forward my thanks and appreciation for the editorial on the rash of school district actions approving tax levies. Wi...
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Is Roskam really working for us?Dec 29, 2011 4:00 am - I just received a very slick and colorful mailing from Congressman Peter Roskam — the No. 1 user of congressional free postage. I object! In small type it’s noted “this ...
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Attach punishment to enrollment theftDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - The Daily Herald reports that whenever out-of-district students whose residency information has been falsified are discovered, the district is “legally required to ask f...
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Let U.S. officials make the statementsDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - Communist North Korea’s President Kim Jong II died a few days ago and our poli“trick”cians are voicing their opinions without consideration for Secretary of State Hillar...
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Small businesses need care, tooDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - Big Illinois government is fell all over itself to pay hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to big companies in a desperate attempt to keep them located in ...
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Meeting for parents of special-needs kidsDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - As a parent of a special needs teenager, in a state which is 47th in the nation in providing education and services to children and young adults with special needs, if a...
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Grateful to staff at Rainbow HospiceDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - I would like to publicly thank everyone at Rainbow Hospice at the Ark in Park Ridge, for the wonderful care they gave my son, Dino, in his final days. Their care and com...
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Positive steps toward cleaner airDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Last week the Environmental Protection Agency released new standards that will limit emissions of pollutants like mercury, arsenic, lead, sulfur dioxide, cyanide and oth...
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There’s a fine line between funny, sadDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Through the years Hollywood has taught us that there’s a fine distinction between comedy and tragedy. The report by Paul Bianco of the 85-year-old-curb rider outside of ...