Des Plaines Opinion
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The SoapboxJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - Sharing pain: In their one-day session to address budget issues this week, Illinois senators also moved to participate in the needed sacrifices. They joined the House in...
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COD adviser transfer done to save programJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - A student alleged in a letter to the Daily Herald this week that College of DuPage removed its student newspaper’s faculty advisor out of retaliation or a desire to cont...
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‘Free speech zones’ coming to suburbs?Jun 25, 2011 3:00 am - Earlier this month, a small group of individuals engaged in their monthly peace demonstration at Dunton Park in Arlington Heights. For the first time in my memory, an of...
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Liberalism has failed in practiceJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - This was President Obama’s plan from the get go: cheat the workers, force the middle class into the same health care coverage as those 30 million who chose not have heal...
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Focus on jobs, not just the deficitJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - The Republicans have a plan to boost the U.S. economy, lower taxes to encourage investment and increase production while cutting government spending. This plan is called...
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Obama puts himself above the lawJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - In 2005, after The New York Times revealed then-President Bush’s illegal NSA spying program, I wrote a letter calling for Bush’s impeachment. The reason was simple: Bush...
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School reform bill is just a startJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - We have all read about the “big” school reforms signed into law by Gov Quinn. I just finished reading the 111-page SB 7 and remind the public that tenure one of the bigg...
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Put common sense back in fireams lawsJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - The right to carry arms is for self-protection. The Constitution was written by generally common-sense farmers and businessmen. The time was after the Revolutionary War ...
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Real reform needed for workers’ compJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - While House Bill 1698 was a start, it fell short of meaningful workers’ comp reform that we need to ease the burden on employers and make Illinois more attractive to bus...
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Choose well, be cool and liveJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - In less time than it takes to read this sentence, six teens decided to act. Now four of them are dead, leaving all their friends, family and neighbors with never-ending,...