Elgin Opinion
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College sports need federal interventionJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - The Daily Herald Editorial Board served their readers well when it said: Kept in perspective, athletics play an important role in college life (“Keeping bowl fever in pe...
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Recess appointment must be reversedJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - American citizens take notice. Our president, acting as a sole dictator, made an appointment that was arranged at government recesses to intentionally maneuver around ou...
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Vick an exemplar? That's a fantasyJan 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Editor's note: In his Dec. 29 fantasy football column, Daily Herald sports writer John Dietz and Daily Herald voters named Aaron Rodgers as season MVP, with two othe...
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Think about liberty, then about your voteJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - I sincerely implore you to read as much as you can between now and November about the presidential candidates so you are as well-informed as possible because this will b...
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15 yards for kicking Pack when they’re downJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - Your discrimination seems to be showing. Back when the Packers were undefeated, there was next to nothing mentioned in your paper. Maybe a little blurb ... very seldom a...
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Man’s loss of his home is a shameJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - Certainly, there are times in our lives when we take steps backward instead of forward due to personal crises and circumstances that occur that could sway us on the dark...
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Robinson’s columns predictably negativeJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - Eugene Robinson’s editorial on Jan. 10 is titled, “A candidate as fringe as fringe can be.” Personally I’d say that Robinson is “An editorialist as fringe as fringe can ...
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Republicans need a moral recheckJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - I have often said that the Republican candidates and party dogma had no standards. I was wrong. I carefully listen to the actual debates and pronouncements of party spok...
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Reason to fear donation collectorsJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - What worries me about “intersection charities” is that these soliciters think this single old lady is driving along with her purse on the front seat (it’s locked in the ...
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Let’s temper the rosy look at ObamaJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - In response to the opinion piece by Donna Brazile the Daily Herald published Jan. 11 claiming Obama is fixing things, I must retort with my own tally of Obama’s performa...