Des Plaines Opinion
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Only park dist. can save these animalsJul 02, 2012 5:15 am - The Arlington Heights Park District has some dirty laundry. Countless lives of local wildlife has been lost because the park district refuses to employ common sense, or ...
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Letter mirrored her own thoughtsJul 02, 2012 5:15 am - I’m responding to the letter June 12 in Fencepost by Betty Biggerstaff, Buffalo Grove. There are many times I pick up your paper and the Tribune and say, one more pictur...
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Lake Arlington path as dangerous as everJul 02, 2012 5:15 am - Here we go again. The first few days of summer are here and once again the speeding bikers and rollerbladers have taken over the path around Lake Arlington. These speed ...
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Editorial: Dangers to health and the public’s right to knowJul 01, 2012 8:37 pm - One day last week, Daily Herald Staff Writer Eric Peterson received a tip that hundreds of thousands of gallons of sludge leaked from the John E. Egan Water Reclamation ...
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Put a Republican back in White HouseJul 01, 2012 5:00 am - I feel compelled to write this letter. Why? Because in my humble opinion Barack Obama is the poorest man ever elected president of the United States of America. His lack...
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The SoapboxJun 30, 2012 5:00 am - Good call: Kudos to Rob Sherman for calling attention to a move by the Buffalo Grove village board to almost double water rates. On the agenda, the item was listed as a ...
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Waterboarding not as bad as ‘kill list’Jun 28, 2012 5:00 am - During President Bush’s tenure several interrogation methods were used to obtain information from the hard-core terrorists. One method used as a last resort was the wate...
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Editorial: A new approach to train for manufacturing jobsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - Regular readers of our Opinion Page commentaries know that we long have been impressed by Harper College President Kenneth Ender’s energizing call for an integrated appr...
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President’s record is frighteningJun 22, 2012 5:00 am - In Mr. Robinson’s May 23 column, he is hyperventilating over the possibility that Gov. Mitt Romney would be a conservative rather than a moderate president. Personally I...
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A way to preempt graduation cheeringJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - The past several weeks have seen newspaper articles, letters to the editor and TV clips regarding behavior at graduation ceremonies. In some extreme cases, graduates wer...