Des Plaines Opinion
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Clear sidewalks make happy trekkersDec 24, 2010 10:00 pm - If you own or rent a house and have a sidewalk in front of your property, do you or your hired help clear after it snows? If not, after you or someone else shovels or cl...
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Learn to welcome stranger in our midstDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - As a new year approaches I hope our leaders will take up the issue of serious immigration reform. As the husband of a Sicilian immigrant, I am so grateful that my wife's...
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Properly fund sheriff's officeDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - To the Kane County Board: The Kane County Sheriff's Department has six to seven deputies on patrol per shift. They patrol 540 square miles with a population of 550,000 p...
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Unfairness pervades justice systemDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - I am writing in regards to the corrupt politics that are being used in the Cook County Court system, particularly the Rolling Meadows branch. There are cases that are be...
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Creche is absent, but not Christmas spiritDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - Both last year and this year I've missed the Nativity scene/creche that used to be on display near the gazebo at the intersection of Hough and Main streets in downtown B...
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Elgin should post red light camerasDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - The city of Elgin could be boosting revenue and making more intersections safer for drivers and pedestrians by adding more red light cameras to intersections around town...
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Obey traffic laws or pay the priceDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - I disagree with your opinion that cameras should not be used to issue tickets for right-on-red failure to stop. Camera intersections are clearly marked, and motorists ha...
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Notice the signs of a decaying societyDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - Historians have warned over the centuries that societies that lose their sexual self-restraint soon decay and disintegrate. Edward Gibbon, author of “The Decline and Fal...
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Put Christ publicly back into ChristmasDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - Our country was founded by people who firmly believed in God. About 80 percent of Americans are Christian, and therefore we are considered a Christian nation. For over 2...
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Bailouts had positive resultsDec 24, 2010 11:00 am - I can't imagine why Mr. Don Frost (Fence Post, Dec. 18) thinks that President Obama is a socialist. The bailouts of GM, Chrysler, financial institutions got them back on...