Elgin Opinion
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Can we afford to ignore capital plan?Mar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - During the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was widely lauded for his investment in infrastructure. While controversial, this economic theory has proved corre...
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Dumping Electoral College a bad ideaMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - By all means, get rid of the Electoral College. That way, we only have to hold elections in the large cities. We can let one group elect the leaders for the rest of us....
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God's Gym mess provokes questionsMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Elgin taxpayers should be concerned. The way the city of Elgin handled the God's Gym issue was predictable. Elgin's elected officials should be required to answer the m...
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Maybe concealed carry solves all illsMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - I guess from all I am hearing, if the students at Northern Illinois University had been carrying concealed weapons, the killing rampage might not have occurred. Well, pe...
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Early voting idea becomes a successMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - As Illinois' chief proponent of early voting, I applaud the Feb. 26 editorial ("Don't rush changes in early voting") for highlighting early voting's successes and pointi...
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Foster will address district's concernsMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - It has been awhile since Democrats and independents have had their concerns for health care, economic stability and the waste, fraud and abuse that is the war in Iraq ad...
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Send message, vote Foster on March 8Mar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - It is time to elect a Democrat to be our representative. Vote for Bill Foster if you are fed up with the dishonest and hypocritical government we have had to endure ove...
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Attacks on Skoien totally unwarrantedMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Recently a group calling itself the United Republicans of Palatine Township posted a full-page ad in the newspaper and sent out a mailing attacking Gary Skoien, the Repu...
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Morask grateful for all supportersMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Words alone cannot adequately express my thanks for your show of support not only at the polls but throughout the long hard road of the last six months. This was truly a...
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Writer dead wrong on 14th AmendmentMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Thomas Tawney is dead wrong when he says in his Feb. 25 letter the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born to illegal al...