Des Plaines Opinion
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Obama sabotaging his own health lawMar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - Opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are many and varied. They include both small and large corporations, members and committees of Congress, appr...
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Endorsement: Schock for Elgin mayorMar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - In his 12 years as Elgin's mayor, Ed Schock has held a long view for the city: expand the industrial tax base, build higher-end homes to improve the property tax base an...
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Walsh right to fight reckless spendingMar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - Peggy Simonsen’s letter on Feb. 13 criticized new U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh for supposedly not recognizing “It’s the economy, stupid!” I don’t recall any such question from Pe...
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Help those who might injure othersMar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - In reply to Patti Siwicki’s comments in the Feb. 19 Fence Post with the headline “Words can motivate the less stable to act,” I would agree that the rhetoric should be t...
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Endorsement: Steffen, Warren, Moeller for Elgin councilMar 04, 2011 11:00 pm - Ten people are vying for three seats on the council this year, every one of them passionate about his or her candidacy and the city itself. It's a shame there aren't mor...
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Love, don’t kill, the unborn childrenMar 03, 2011 11:00 pm - Suggestion: Two recent Fence Post letters carried the same message of “don’t reduce funding to abortion providers.” Planned Parenthood employees and Chicago Abortion Fun...
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Look at facts about health care lawMar 03, 2011 11:00 pm - I feel the need to respond to a Feb. 19 letter by Roger Roeing with regards to the Affordable Care Act and the impending health care laws. I ask that you would get the f...
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Politicians have saddled us with debtMar 03, 2011 11:00 pm - We have lived and voted for our choices in elections within Arlington Heights, Cook County, Illinois and the nation, and no matter what the politician said, he/she did n...
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Should U-46 be a model district?Mar 03, 2011 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald congratulated Superintendent Jose Torres of Elgin Area School District U-46, who was named to a high-powered Department of Education commission looking ...
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Income gap only will get worseMar 03, 2011 11:00 pm - Contrary to what you hear, our major economic problem for the past few decades is governmental welfare for rich Americans and corporate monopolies. Every year the econom...