Des Plaines Opinion
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Des Plaines citizens gave from the heartJun 02, 2017 5:00 am - Over the weekend prior to Memorial Day, the members of the American Legion Des Plaines Post 36 were out in force taking donations for poppies to help support our service...
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Values, not home, drove push for minimum wage hikeMay 26, 2017 1:00 am - I appreciate the kind words regarding my stewardship of Cook County that begin a recent Daily Herald editorial. Since taking office in December 2010, my administration h...
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First Amendment livesMay 21, 2017 1:00 am - Last November the political left witnessed the loss of their candidate, Hillary. After five months of resisting, I had hoped by now, for their own emotional and mental h...
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Editorial: How Preckwinkle lost suburbs on minimum wageMay 18, 2017 1:00 am - As we've noted in this space plenty of times before, there is much that impresses us about Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. She has introduced discipline in...
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Some other things to wonder aboutMay 16, 2017 1:00 am - I am wondering, too, Mr. Riebock: • After eight years, how any millions of our tax dollars paid for the Obamas' vacations? (Currently the IBD and Judicial Watch say it w...
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If Des Plaines wants control over unincorporated land, annex itMay 15, 2017 5:00 am - As you are aware, there has been lots of controversy concerning the proposed compost facility along Central Road in Des Plaines. What is disturbingly not mentioned is ho...
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Health care bill will give government to DemsMay 08, 2017 1:00 am - The Republican House of Representatives' health care bill, if approved by the Senate, will insure that the Democrats win in 2020. The Affordable (Unaffordable) Care Act ...
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We're on thoughtless path to destructionMay 08, 2017 1:00 am - It seems my fellow Americans have elected a president who, with staff and advisers, doesn't have a clue about our world, nor do they care. Ignorance that has now taken u...
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Columnist perpetuated mistakes about historyMay 08, 2017 1:00 am - I was happy to see Georgie Anne Geyer's effort to bring a little historical sense to the White House's recent comparison of the Spanish Armada of 1588 to the USS Carl Vi...
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We're on thoughtless path to destructionMay 08, 2017 1:00 am - It seems my fellow Americans have elected a president who, with staff and advisers, doesn't have a clue about our world, nor do they care. Ignorance that has now taken u...