Des Plaines Opinion
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Unpump the volume, CarpentersvilleDec 12, 2010 10:00 pm - As a resident of Carpentersville, the level of music that comes from passing vehicles is becoming a nuisance. The city of Carpentersville should enforce a noise ordinanc...
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Ways to improve juvenile justiceDec 11, 2010 10:00 pm - When I was inducted in June as president of the Illinois State Bar Association, I made a commitment to work closely with our association members to reform our woefully i...
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Keep your cool around school busesDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - My 3-year-old twins started preschool last week. What should be a wonderful experience has turned into a nightmare because impatient drivers feel the need to honk and go...
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It's been a big news year in suburbsDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - The suburbs have witnessed a plethora of native sons and daughters do extraordinary things this year, as the Daily Herald's Kristen Menke outlined Friday. In fact, in t...
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U.S. too quick to go to warDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - I was drafted into the Army in 1963 and served proudly. In those days if you didn't pass the physical you were a sissy. Since then, after three wars, my mind has changed...
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Keep smoking out of casinosDec 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Keep smoking out of casinos
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How about good press for guns?Dec 09, 2010 10:00 pm - How about good press for guns?
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Mergers are keeping unemployment highDec 09, 2010 10:00 pm - In the Nov. 16 Business section, the Daily Herald had a front-page story titled “Companies crank up deal machine, put cash to work.” Comments from the article included t...
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Kindhearted neighborsDec 09, 2010 10:00 pm - A few weeks before Halloween, our black cat went missing. Bruiser Bear is 9 years old and vision impaired. We feared the worst but immediately created “lost” fliers and ...
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Letter was hurtful to gays, lesbiansDec 09, 2010 10:00 pm - This is in response to Fence Post letter titled “Consider the public purpose of marriage” by David E. Smith. I found it disheartening that at this charitable and loving ...