Des Plaines Opinion
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In defense of backyard chickensSep 10, 2010 11:00 pm - The author of your anti-chicken editorial apparently does not know that hens can lay eggs without having any noisy roosters around. I didn't know this myself until my da...
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Stop the battles over benefitsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Does it appear to you lately that certain media sources seem to be trying to pit the private sector against the public sector? I was watching the "Your World w/ Neil Cav...
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Opinions have sure changed in 7 yearsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Seven long years ago, I was called a traitor for my opinions. My crime was thus: I doubted that an almost entirely landlocked Middle Eastern country with low force proje...
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Sep 09, 2010 1:00 am - Open mosque site to all religions How about this for a solution to the rights vs. sensitivity in building a mosque near the 9/11 site? The Muslims would donate the ...
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U-turn worse than right on redSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I was driving to work at Biesterfield Road and Route 53 in Elk Grove Village. I had the arrow to turn right heading east on Biesterfield. As I'm turning, some yahoo deci...
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Support our troops, fly the flagSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans took to flying their flags in support of those we lost that day and in support of our country's fight against terroris...
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Elgin's rehab goals not fiscally soundSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - After reading about Elgin's upcoming plans to spend $600,000 in federal grant money to rehab deteriorating, foreclosed properties, I question the reasonableness of the d...
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TV watchguards need supportSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - People are beginning to realize what has happened to television. There was a time when the entire family could sit down to watch TV without parents having to worry about...
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Where is the apology for 9/11?Sep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Approximately 61 percent of Americans oppose the New York mosque project, and yet the Muslims insist on wanting to build it near ground zero, where the loved ones of tho...
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Republicans moving in wrong directionSep 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It is not surprising that Republican pols - for Republican, read Big Business - want to phase out Social Security (and Medicare and unemployment compensation and minimum...