Elgin Opinion
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Noland does right by constituentsMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Sen. Michael Noland is a champion for our children and communities. In 2002 when he first ran for elected state office, then candidate Mike Noland knocked on my friend'...
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Read the law before you condemn itMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - We will never have a civil discourse about Arizona's new illegal immigration law as long as the demagoguery from out political leaders continues. Recently President Obam...
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Democrats are caving to corporationsMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Poor Cecile Powell. As usual you have about half the story correct much as your defense of Bill Clinton no matter what he did wrong. First of all the corporations that y...
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People won't stand for bias against WalshMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - If Joe Walsh were a liberal Democrat, the Daily Herald would praise him as Joe citizen who fell on hard times and foreclosed on a property due to the awful Republicans c...
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Thankful for preschool crewMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - I am the director of Good Shepherd Lutheran Preschool. I have a wonderful staff of teachers, classroom assistants, child care workers and substitute workers. The first w...
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No need to fear those with mental illnessMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Twelve years ago I was diagnosed with depression, eight years ago with manic depression or bi-polar disease. In that time, I've been in a number of relationships, when i...
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Elected leaders reflect the votersMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Regarding Messrs. Madigan's and Cullerton's lack of leadership to stem Illinois' building insolvency, we are what we elect. Jack Kenesey Palatine ...
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All pensions come out of our pocketsMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - I am a child, an employee, a mortgage holder, a parent, and a public schoolteacher. I became each of those in that order during my life. I am not young, technically a s...
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Rein in Wall Street gamblersMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Why is it that we regulate gambling but fail to control Wall Street? Why can Goldman Sachs, or example, sell "synthetic instruments" and derivatives, whereby they make m...
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Unions drive up cost of teacher pensionsMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Your recent Sunday editorial on Springfield's broken promise on pensions makes an important point, but if the key question is accountability, you gave the teacher's unio...