Elgin Opinion
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Republican Party not what it wasApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - I used to have a lot of respect for both the Democratic and Republican parties. Not so much any more. “Back in the day,” both were able to maintain their moderate-libera...
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All fun, no politics on comics pageApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - I used to find Jan Eliot’s “Stone Soup” very entertaining. Now that she’s politicizing her cartoon, shouldn’t she be on the Opinion page? I want entertainment, not polit...
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Alternative views were neededApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - The April 17 Fence Post letter “Why the Catholic Church has it right” clears up some questions I personally have had for 50 years. I want to thank Mr. Peter Nordlund for...
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Once they vote, what can taxpayers do?Apr 26, 2012 5:00 am - I agree with everything in your April 16 editorial, “Stop the pension penalty insanity.” What I want to know is how we taxpayers can do that? We seem to have no control ...
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A civics lesson to rememberApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - When President Kennedy was killed in 1963, I was in my second year at Northern Illinois University and was getting ready to go to my next scheduled class which was “civi...
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Carlin remarks cast a chill on CODApr 26, 2012 1:00 am - Thursday evening, April 19, College of DuPage Board Chairman David Carlin changed the tone of negotiations and cast a chill on the working relationships at the college. ...
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Vote the bums outApr 25, 2012 5:33 am - A letter on April 23, “Will we cut benefits for lawmakers, too?” speaks exactly to what I have been pondering. State lawmakers and their part-time positions that pay ben...
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A conversation on deer cullingApr 25, 2012 5:33 am - You’re killing hundreds of deer to see if any are sick? Yeah, maybe five were. But there’s no cure, and it’s not communicable to humans. Expensive tax-funded testing mig...
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Save a life, be an organ donorApr 25, 2012 5:33 am - April has been designated “Organ Donation” month, a subject that does not offer a great deal of public awareness. I have been pleased to see the recent commercials appea...
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News media marked by subtle biasesApr 25, 2012 5:00 am - Growing up in Chicago in the early 1960s, I often heard the joke that if the Sun-Times forecast sunny, the Tribune would forecast cloudy. Always opposing viewpoints, but...