Des Plaines Opinion
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Collaboration helped bring about water ordinanceOct 31, 2013 5:00 am - Recently the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the Cook County Watershed Management Ordinance (WMO...
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Get to know a Tea Party memberOct 28, 2013 5:00 am - To Bill Reddy: Your despicable comments (Your Views, Oct. 7) comparing the Tea Party to Osama bin Laden simply tells me that you have very little knowledge of either one...
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Promises on health care not being realizedOct 28, 2013 5:00 am - So today I finally was able to log in with the Healthcare.gov account I set up 10 days ago, ironically at the same time our president was telling the American people how...
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Disney offers model to reshape our citiesOct 28, 2013 5:00 am - A news article regarding the more than $100 million in grants slated to help Detroit stated that even that staggering amount is not enough. One official stated the need ...
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The SoapboxOct 26, 2013 7:55 am - Beyond complaint: Village boards must think residents show up for public comment only to complain. Not so this week in Arlington Heights. Residents said an exit from Nor...
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Andy Pafko rose above the restOct 26, 2013 5:00 am - No. 48 is gone. It saddened me to read of Andy Pafko’s death. In yet another bygone era of poor baseball, Handy Andy was a star among a host of mediocrities. Andy’s trad...
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Downtown conferences valuable to school boardsOct 24, 2013 5:00 am - I read with interest the article about the cost of suburban school board members attending the annual conferences in Chicago, so I called my brother-in-law for input. He...
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Editorial: What happened to the sense of urgency on pensions?Oct 24, 2013 5:00 am - Even before the first day of the scheduled fall session of the Illinois legislature closed on Tuesday, the House had canceled today’s activities. Three days of work appe...
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Punishments not matching the crimeOct 23, 2013 5:00 am - What’s wrong with this picture? Just came back from a drive to South Carolina and couldn’t help but notice their extremely clean highways. Then spotted a sign, “No Litte...
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Mt. Prospect walkers have a place againOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - Thanks to Brian Taylor, director of recreation, and the Mount Prospect park board, we now have a free indoor place to walk in Mount Prospect. The hockey rink and gym spa...