Des Plaines Opinion
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Editorial: School funding key in dealing with poverty levelsSep 04, 2013 5:00 am - It’s always best to find the silver lining in news that on first blush may be less than ideal. So it is with a report in Tuesday’s Daily Herald that poverty rates in 83 ...
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Address root causes of youth crimeSep 02, 2013 5:00 am - In the Daily Herald’s Aug. 27 national news summary, it was reported that the NAACP has raised 1.7 million signatures to pressure the Justice Department to pursue charge...
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Remembrance rescue truck visits West ChicagoAug 29, 2013 11:00 pm - West Chicago, Illinois: August 30, 2013 – West Chicago business owners Kent Jean and Kevin Fett of Evo Exhibits welcomed one of two remaining Rescue Trucks from 9/11 to ...
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The SoapboxAug 24, 2013 5:00 am - Stick with tradition: Perhaps you noticed the U.S. team was beaten soundly in the 2013 Solheim Cup by the Europeans. That follows their loss in 2011 in Ireland, which fo...
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Oakton Community College Presents Update of Film, "An Inconvenient Truth"Aug 20, 2013 11:00 pm - Faculty members from Oakton Community College, in coordination with Organizing for Action and The Climate Reality Project, will present a commentary titled, “An Inconven...
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Writer’s thinking on Founders is all wrongAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Mr. Richard Gideon, in a letter to editor on Aug. 2, wants us to believe that he has an inside track on the thinking of our “Founding Fathers.” He implied that the muzzl...
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Obama policies giving terrorists an edgeAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - How many prisoners were freed from prisons in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan by al-Qaida? No wonder al-Qaida is feeling emboldened! So maybe it was a good idea to leave Isl...
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Blame woes on voters, self-serving officialsAug 15, 2013 2:00 pm - The Illinois pension problem is the worst of the worst, going further into debt — over $12 million a day. Many leaders in Springfield today are the same ones and from th...
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Editorial sought to challenge a tired phraseAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - I got my first personal introduction to what has come to be known as NIMBY syndrome in Clinton, Iowa, back in the 1970s. As a cub reporter, I attended meeting after emot...
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Signage overkill at Lake ArlingtonAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - In response to the recent and most regrettable tragedy at Lake Arlington, the park district’s new policy to have riders and walkers travel in opposite direction is a sim...