Des Plaines Opinion
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Congress has sold out the unemployedJan 15, 2010 10:00 pm - I have joined the ranks of the 25 million people that are out of work in America. Although there are 25 million Americans unemployed, Congress continues to allow 1. 5 mi...
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Without experience opinion is worthlessJan 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Open Letter to Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Yesterday, I saw an interesting report on a local television news program. The reporter indicated that you have been active in formul...
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History will prove bill is flawedJan 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Yes Virginia, there is a Grinch. Christmas morning the papers greeted us with an enormous Trojan horse, masquerading as "health care reform." This bill passed by the Sen...
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Patlak can modernize board of reviewJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Wheeling Township Assessor Dan Patlak is the Republican candidate for Commissioner of the Cook County Board of Review, the agency that reviews our property assessment ap...
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Inexpensive idea for health care reformJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - We can do something about the high cost of health care and prescription drugs, regardless of what Congress decides for us. Since 1997 when pharmaceutical companies were...
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In terms of jobs, which party is better?Jan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - I guess the Republicans are sure unfriendly to the common folks. After all, when the Democrats took over Congress in 2007 the unemployment rate was 4.6 percent. Now it'...
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Patlak has skills needed for boardJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Being the Schaumburg Township Assessor, I am endorsing Dan Patlak for Cook County Board of Review. I have worked with Dan as a fellow township assessor for many years. ...
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School electives should not be cutJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - An open letter to Elgin Area School District U-46: I would normally not send an e-mail complaint to you but I have to say I am appalled at the idea that my children are ...
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Where's coverage on broken promise?Jan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - If George Bush had promised eight times to have open and C-span televised health care negotiations and then held them behind closed doors it'd be on the front page of yo...
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Don't ask me to pray for the terroristsJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Ed Smetana states in Fence Post that God's system worked. Mr. Smetana asks if God foiled the attempt of the inept would-be murderer to take the lives of more than 200 pe...