Des Plaines Opinion
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Editorial: The win-win of first-time forgivenessOct 25, 2012 9:35 am - In 2009, the average number of inmates in Illinois prisons stood at 45,545. It grew to 47,504 the next year and to 48,978 in 2011, according to annual reports from the I...
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Was auto industry really saved?Oct 25, 2012 9:14 am - Please, someone help me do the math. President Obama brags loud and clear how he single-handedly saved the whole auto industry — someone help total up how many sales peo...
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Editorial: Preckwinkle gives and takes Cook taxesOct 24, 2012 9:35 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle didn’t initiate a 1-percentage-point county sales tax increase in 2008, Her predecessor Todd Stroger did. But Preckwinkle di...
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Obama no longer talks about the poorOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - Dear President Barack Obama, I’m extremely disappointed in the way you avoid talking about the poor. It has to be obvious to anyone who gives it the least little bit of ...
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Lack of signs a sign of the times?Oct 20, 2012 5:00 am - This presidential election coming up is probably the most important that I have ever voted on in my lifetime. Something is strange about it, though. With less than four ...
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Voices of Catholics who attend are neededOct 20, 2012 5:00 am - With reference to Paul Culhanes’s Sept. 27 guest view, “Laity’s role in picking area’s next bishop,” it has been said that massive amounts of time are wasted by Voice of...
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Regulations for car efficiency can workOct 20, 2012 5:00 am - Mr. Ken Kitzing’s letter to the editor on Oct. 9 drove me to do some research on the new federal standards for auto fuel efficiency. Mr. Kitzing suggested that in order ...
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The SoapboxOct 20, 2012 5:00 am - Playoff ready: It’s been an exciting high school football season in the suburbs that has featured thrilling games and impressive individual performances. But the best i...
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Endorsement: Yes on Arlington Heights parks proposalOct 19, 2012 5:00 am - We thought Arlington Heights residents shouldn’t pass up the opportunity last spring to leverage low borrowing and construction costs to make needed renovation work at s...
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We already told the park district ‘no’Oct 19, 2012 5:00 am - It seems like we the people just fended off one obscene attempt by the park district to stick us with $48 million in completely unneeded buildings in March, and barely f...