Des Plaines Opinion
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Let's study crossing at Central & BusseAug 22, 2016 5:00 am - I strongly agree with Westbrook teacher Janice Zemaitis and local resident Chuck Bennett about the safety issues at Central and Busse roads. I too am a bike rider who en...
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Could today's students make it in 1960s?Aug 22, 2016 1:00 am - In regards to Glenbard North's proposal to their student to "lock their phones" so they can earn reward points, I am amazed that I was able to make it through high schoo...
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Social Security important to retirement plansAug 22, 2016 1:00 am - I read with great interest the article by David Barnes of Generation Opportunity regarding Social Security, which is yet another attempt by a right-wing organization to ...
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Politicians don't do enough to fight drugsAug 20, 2016 1:00 am - The first segment on 60 Minutes recently was titled "Heroin in the Heartland." Parents in the Columbus, Ohio, area who had lost a child to a drug overdose were being int...
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Don't supporters care about Hillary's past?Aug 20, 2016 1:00 am - I totally support Marilyn Jones who wrote on Aug. 3 concerning why Hillary Clinton is the wrong woman to become president. When the campaign "era" began, I, too, believ...
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Blaming the wrong cause for killingsAug 15, 2016 1:00 am - According to the Daily Herald, 70 individuals lost their lives to violence in Chicago in June and only 65 individuals lost their lives in July. Based on the administrati...
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Special interests control crop safetyAug 11, 2016 1:00 am - Nancy Thorner's letter on the safety of GMO products is well written and very persuasive, except it ignores the issues of the increased use of Round-Up used by farmers t...
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Leaders must work to control national debtAug 10, 2016 1:00 am - We should be asking our political canadates how they plan to reduce our national debt? It's $19 trillon and still growing. Two political conventions and what did we lea...
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Can Central Road crossing in Mount Prospect be safer?Aug 08, 2016 5:00 am - I read your editorial today (Aug. 3) with some interest as a long time resident of Mount Prospect, and a bicyclist. I've crossed Central Road at that precise location on...
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Child hunger is unacceptableAug 06, 2016 1:00 am - Tonight millions of children will go to bed hungry. And they will wake up in the morning to no breakfast. This is unacceptable in this day and age. Nourishment is import...