Des Plaines Opinion
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Shed a tear over immigration processOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Recently, I heard two different perspectives on immigration. First, I listened to the story of two women who escaped from Communist Europe during the 1960s and waited in...
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Smile for the camera proposalOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Smile for the camera proposal: Some communities are looking for ways to make red-light cameras more palatable to the public. That's no easy task. But Kane County's propo...
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A little Dickens in reverseOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - A very unusual thing happened to me recently. We all remember Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" where Scrooge is a miserly self-centered man with no concern for the less-fort...
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Find candidates who favor gun rightsOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Second Amendment rights There are three potential candidates on the Democratic side possibly running for mayor of the city of Chicago. They are Forrest Claypool, Tom Dar...
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Our flag deserves much more respectOct 01, 2010 11:00 pm - American people, my question is: Why do we as Americans always have to be tolerant of everyone? Our flag is being burned, walked on and ripped to shreds not just in oth...
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Not Rauschenberger's seat to reclaimSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I strongly object to the wording in Kerry Lester's article, in the Sept. 23 issue, about Steve Rauschenberger. Lester refers to Rauschenberger's bid to, "reclaim his old...
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Cuts still a priority in local spendingSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - At a time in Illinois when politicians everywhere seem to turn us off and tune us out, a rare, refreshing thing happened this week. Trustees in Schaumburg fulfilled two ...
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Death penalty no deterrent to murderSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I couldn't agree more with your Sept. 27 editorial. A moratorium on executions "is not the final answer." The only final answer that makes public policy sense is to abo...
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Munson will guard your pocketbookSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Ruth Munson is the logical choice for state representative. Ruth has walked the walk from her years on Elgin's city council through her years as state representative tak...
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Don't expect quick fixes to economySep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - How convenient it is for Donald Anderson (Fence Post, Sept. 24) to use figures from the last 10 years to show that George Bush was nothing short of spectacular in handli...