Des Plaines Opinion
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When Life Doesn't Work out the Way You Want: Create Plan BJun 02, 2013 11:00 pm - "Life is All About How you Handle Plan B Plan A is always my first choice. You know, the one where Everything works out to be Happily ever-after. But more often tha...
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Keep teachers’ own views out of classroomJun 02, 2013 5:00 am - It’s that time of year when I think about my own graduation from college many years ago. It was a time I learned that to survive in academia as a student, you had to bec...
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Editorial: A chance to nurture political voices of teensMay 30, 2013 5:00 am - Life handed Charlie Kirk a lemon in the form of a rejection letter to the Military Academy at West Point, abruptly ending his long-held dream. Instead of feeling sorry f...
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Mayor: County must help homeownersMay 29, 2013 5:00 am - Many suburban Cook County taxpayers have experienced massive property tax increases over the past few years. Despite falling prices in the real estate market, residentia...
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The SoapboxMay 25, 2013 5:00 am - What’s a chaparral? It’s the formal name for a roadrunner, silly. The bird, no doubt best known through its cartoon character, is not common to Illinois. It also has bee...
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Promoting business will ease our debtsMay 24, 2013 5:00 am - Here’s a thought or two: Our former mayor of Chicago leaves a 75-year legacy of outrageous parking meter rates for our next two generations created to solve a short-term...
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Editorial: Endangered animals are needed for our health, well-beingMay 24, 2013 5:00 am - Sometimes the fate of the smallest critters creates the biggest controversies. Remember the snail darter? The tiny fish that you could fit in the palm of your hand lived...
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We’re well-equipped for war on terrorismMay 24, 2013 5:00 am - The debate goes on about the Boston terrorists. I have always said, America is like the United Nations. Go to any city and you will find people from all around the world...
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Please don’t toss flag out with the trashMay 23, 2013 5:00 am - Just the other day while on my annual large-item throw-out trip up in the North Shore area with a close friend who lives in that community, we observed among the other d...
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Crime, corruption ‘tax’ impacts allMay 23, 2013 5:00 am - Ms. Marni Pyke’s excellent article on the reasons behind high Chicago gas costs nevertheless missed one of the important reasons why I paid $3.59 a gallon in South Beloi...