East Dundee Opinion
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Tired of heavy truck trafficJul 02, 2009 11:00 pm - I live in Elgin off Route 25. Day in, day out, big rig haulers have made a habit of using Route 25 as their "main drag." Liberty Street in Elgin is completely residentia...
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Elgin council is all ScroogesJul 02, 2009 11:00 pm - For the first time in my memory, 50-plus years, the city of Elgin will not have a Fourth of July fireworks display. It was a budget revenue related decision by the city ...
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Obama should not have to drive compactJun 27, 2009 11:00 pm - This letter is in regard to the gentleman from Batavia who wrote June 12 stating Obama should drive a compact car if I must. You're not talking about a regular man, this...
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Treat undocumented aliens as criminalsJun 27, 2009 11:00 pm - There is an e-mail regarding the federal worker verification program (E-Verify) that will travel much of our country; but for my part here in Illinois, I think it is tim...
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Photos of stillborns helpful for grievingJun 23, 2009 11:00 pm - I wanted to tell you that the recent article on parents holding their stillborn infants was very tender and well done. A really good thing! We had a stillborn child on M...
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Look at success of adult stem cell workJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - What a great article I just read: An Aurora city employee donates bone marrow, and a youngster's life is saved by it. Fantastic. Bone marrow transplants have been aroun...
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One bad read on health care solutionJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - After reading Terry Gavin's derision of Al Kirkland's article about reforming the health care system to cover everyone and eliminate the insurance companies' profit, I s...
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Be proactive against pesky mosquitoesJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Two sure signs of summer are expected to surface this week - one welcome, one not so. Meteorologists say the warmer weather we've been craving after what seemed to be a ...
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Society will suffer from budget cutsJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Recently, a state legislator told me that he couldn't vote for a tax increase because he didn't know how the additional revenues would be spent. He voiced the understand...
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Let's hope signs of confidence just a startJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Nothing begets confidence like confidence. We've been in a collective clench for so long as businesses enormous and small have gone bankrupt or closed, jobs have been st...