Des Plaines Opinion
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‘Respect life’ banner belongs in paradeJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - Tell me I didn’t see that article in the Herald stating the Jaycees, a private organization that sponsors the Fourth of July festival, voted unanimously to ban the banne...
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Contributors deserve their Medicare benefitsJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - Remember when the politicians gave themselves a big raise a year or so ago and took the money out of the Medicare fund? Well, we should make them put it back and then so...
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How could all those kids be missing?Jun 30, 2011 3:00 am - I’m a little curious about the numbers quoted by Kristi Lafleur and John Jesernik in the letter about child ID cards (Fence Post, June 13). They state that 2,100 childre...
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Clarifying the facts on Social SecurityJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - I would like to correct two factual errors in a letter published June 4. The author, Mr. Gosch, incorrectly stated that “the Democrats stole the Social Security Funds, p...
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Target entitlements, not military costsJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - The “peace dividend” took over $100 billion from the military and moved it into social welfare programs in the 1990s. I think people who now say the military should be r...
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Republicans are all about freedomJun 27, 2011 9:00 pm - Abraham Lincoln, a Republican president, freed the slaves. A Republican Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Republicans want Americans to “be all they can be.”...
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Articles unfairly imply guiltJun 27, 2011 9:00 pm - As a fan of Jack’s Pizzeria and Burgers in Waukegan and Grayslake, I was dismayed to read the articles about the recent arrest of one of the “owners” and allegations tha...
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Unions’ hand on teachers too heavyJun 27, 2011 9:00 pm - We all love teachers, but teachers unions, not so much. We’ve all heard how when an election comes up, some teachers unions will call all the teachers and tell them how ...
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Step up to help a veteran in needJun 26, 2011 9:00 pm - A couple of weeks ago I went to my bank and the teller asked me if I had my umbrella coupon as it was customer appreciation week. I told him no and I got a pen. I sat do...
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Liberty Bash held, hardly anyone cameJun 26, 2011 9:00 pm - The Support Your Troops or “Liberty Bash” in Bartlett was sponsored by the Hanover Township administration to support the troops and the veterans. The two days of this a...