Elgin Opinion
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Put down your cell; watch for workersAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - Welcome to the construction season in a town near you. During the summer months bridges and roads are being repaired or replaced, the parkway grass and trees are getting...
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Who will save planet if not us?Aug 03, 2011 3:00 am - I am a Columbia College Chicago student and like many students my age I see solutions to the urgent climate crisis being pushed aside by our politicians and media in fav...
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Obama’s lack of experience showingAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - There were many who felt Barack Obama wasn’t qualified to be president of the United States. You can include our current vice president and secretary of state among thos...
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Enough intransigence from tea partyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - Where did the tea party members of Congress ever get the notion that the citizens of this nation were willing to walk off an economic cliff to support their intransigent...
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Hemp, solar, wind won’t solve problemAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - It’s difficult to tell whether opinions recently expressed in Fence Post about climate change and energy are due to a lack of knowledge or bad logic. First, with respect...
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Let’s target those who pay no taxesAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - In response to Froma Harrop’s July 10 column claiming “The people do indeed want higher taxes,” she fails to mention that nearly half of U.S. households pay zero federal...
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Gambling interests are too involvedAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - The legislators and business interests from the two most corrupt states in America are collaborating on video poker. Evidently Louisiana’s very own casino empire king, N...
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Show support for peaceful NorwayAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - It is heartbreaking to me now that eight short months ago my family and I walked the beautiful streets of Oslo, Norway. My daughter was studying in Copenhagen, Denmark, ...
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Soccer’s day in U.S. is sure to comeJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - Overweight, middle-aged, T. rex sports writers aside, anyone who watched the women’s World Cup “gets it.” Hollywood could not craft a better story than the one played by...
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Proper terms should be usedJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - Is it a policy of the Daily Herald to print verbatim from news releases? I refer to the July 14 “Northwest suburbs in 60 seconds” column that used the Pro-Life Action Le...