Des Plaines Opinion
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Too few understand health care lawFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - In response to Karen Storino’s Feb. 15 comments regarding her two recent college graduate grandsons who, if “. . . not for the new health care law that just passed would...
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Robbing Peter to pay for Paul’s projectsFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Whoopee, hurrah, yeah, right on. Finally a column about the immorality of what our government and our representatives are so proud of. Froma Harrop hit it right on the h...
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Stop the assault on clean air, waterFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - Illinoisans voted for many things in November, but they certainly did not vote for more asthma attacks, more contaminated drinking water and more threats to our open spa...
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Nursing homes not place for cutbacksFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - During his budget address, Gov. Pat Quinn announced a 6 percent Medicaid budget cut to nursing homes for the upcoming fiscal year, cutting more than $100 million from se...
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School choice would benefit IllinoisFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - Empowering parents to choose the best school for their children — whether public or private, regardless of ZIP code — isn’t just the right thing to do. With Illinois str...
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No need to register home-schoolersFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - The home-schoolers who rallied at the Capitol recently, including myself and my daughter, numbered not merely in the hundreds, as reported in the Daily Herald, but in th...
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Shame on U.S. for supporting MubarakFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - You describe Mubarak as a stalwart ally of this country. This ignores the many reports of ruthless treatment of political prisoners, torture and murder, quite apart from...
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Walsh agenda should come as no surpriseFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - In a letter to the editor dated Feb. 13, it was suggested that U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh was not elected to support his radical views. I am confused. Then, why was he elected?...
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Animals deserve our respectFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - The kindness, compassion, love and respect that we show to the critters who don’t have a voice show the kind of human beings we are. They ask for so little and provide s...
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Outsourcing began long before ObamaFeb 26, 2011 11:00 pm - I must answer the letter you printed from Betty Grenda in the Feb. 17 Fence Post. She blames the Obama administration for the loss of jobs, forgetting that the outsourci...