Deerfield Opinion
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Elgin overhaul needs to be speeded upJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - The Elgin Streetscape Improvement Project is a six-year construction plan from 2006 to 2012 costing $40 million to upgrade and develop the utilities, sidewalks, and road...
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Rethinking the basis for teacher salariesJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - I admit that I don't understand the correlation between teacher salaries and the quality of education our children are receiving. It appears that teachers who work in la...
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Couple's story brings hopesJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - It was encouraging to hear how David and Angela Johnson's lives have turned around. It turns out I work with David. I thought I recognized him from the picture. He is a ...
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Debate policy, but skip name-callingJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - In a recent edition of the Daily Herald, I read in amazement a letter to the editor "Obama much bigger threat than Osama." At first, I thought my bifocals needed an adju...
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When we make changes, they winJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Who is really winning the war on terror? Once again the United States is the victim of a terror attack and our first reaction is to make changes so that we have to chang...
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Does Gore know that joke's on us?Jan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Al Gore is such a kidder. First, as vice president, he announced to the world that he invented the Internet! Now that was funny. This year, an English court has forbidd...
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More spending is not the solutionJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - In yet another blatant display of ignorance, inexperience and arrogance, President Obama proudly proclaimed that our government would have to spend its way out of this r...
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Bush deserves credit for years of growthDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - Stewart Truelsen of Hoffman Estates wrote in Fence Post "A good indicator of the economic legacy of George Bush and his party is the stock market performance for the yea...
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Abortion argument close to slavery'sDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - Harry Reid's comparison of the current "health care" debate to the slavery issue offended me. He has a point, however misguided. The Democrats opposed the end of slavery...
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Obama spews fantasy, not factsDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - On this auspicious occasion I hate to bring our government into any conversation; however, as I mentioned months ago, Obama will not stand still until he gets his (note ...