Elgin Opinion
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Keep tax break for nonprofit hospitalsSep 27, 2011 5:00 am - Not-for-profit hospitals must be ready to treat sick and injured people 24 hours a day regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Free health care is given to many ill pa...
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Don’t need warrior for middle classSep 27, 2011 5:00 am - Here comes the second Obama stimulus bill even though the first one in 2009 didn’t work. He touted the exact verbiage of how we needed infrastructure repair and how it w...
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Part-timers may need assistance tooSep 27, 2011 5:00 am - As I see the jobless rates so high and such a poor economy, I hope and pray for things to get better for all those people who are suffering. Along with the unemployed pe...
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Proof that firefighters should be employeesSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - On Wednesday, September 14th, I received a call at work advising me that our house was on fire. This is not something that I had ever envisioned that I would experience ...
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Smog decision puts lives at riskSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - For too long, smog pollution has left our children gasping for breath. Unfortunately, rather than acting decisively to protect our kids from this dangerous air pollution...
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9/11 service went off topic, he feelsSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - On morning of 9/11/2011, my family and I walked to the Mount Prospect Village Green to support first responders, and together observe their heroic actions as they that d...
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Kill the weeds, and road will last longerSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - As the bridge over Route 53 on Dundee reaches completion, I am reminded how nice a newly completed repaired road can look and feel when driving. My concern is that on ei...
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Wants D15 to bag idea of student farmSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - “Nutritious, sustainable and locally grown food has long been a passion of ... Dist. 15 Superintendent Scott Thompson.” Mr. Thompson may be an avid gardener, but he’s cl...
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Has Will shifted position on rulingSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - George Will’s column, “A ruling’s valuable rehabilitation” (Sept. 9), ignored the overwhelming rejection of the position he advocates by conservative jurists — and by Ge...
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Thinks ‘coffees’ are really campaign stopsSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - So Schaumburg Township Assessor Lawson announces that he is going to start a new program whereby people can host a “Coffee with the Assessor” under the guise of “educati...