Des Plaines Opinion
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End school delay with a decisionAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - To say this summer has been an unsettled and unsettling one for many students, parents, teachers and administrators around the suburbs is an understatement. Some of the ...
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Method of protest defeats the purposeAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - According to James Finnegan of Barrington, rights were violated when police asked him to take down the graphic pictures and disperse an abortion protest in Lake Zurich. ...
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Violence remains strong statesideAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - On August 2, President Obama announced that violence in Iraq is the lowest it has been in years. This announcement must surely bring great joy and comfort to the people ...
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Leaders in Capitol are out of touchAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - It is a travesty that the federal government sued Arizona to prevent that state from acting against people who are in the country illegally. That it has neglected to enf...
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A little peace at restaurants, please?Aug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Why is it that the dining rooms at so many of today's restaurants, including the finer ones, are acoustically designed to sound like Grand Central Station? To have a con...
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Not all should have right to bear bulletsAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - The National Rifle Association is very influential and demands that people have the right to own a gun. In order to accommodate the gun owners and, at the same time, con...
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Show some heart, Kane county boardAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - The upcoming vote of the Kane County Board to possibly slash needed services for the thousands of disadvantaged citizens of Kane County, mostly women and children, is re...
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Blame Democrats for record deficitsAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Now we have a president who thinks he's a comedian. Well, I don't think the president's analogy of the Republicans driving the economy into a ditch is very funny. Maybe ...
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Don't just say no to ObamaAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - GOP Senators Kyl, Inhofe and Demint are planning to block ratification of the new Start Treaty although every foreign policy expert has endorsed the plan to limit nuclea...
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Think of family when motorcyclingAug 10, 2010 11:00 pm - I am appalled at doing anything but "eyes on the road driving." I have not read anywhere the medical details of Anita Zaffke's motorcycle death. However, again it remind...