Elgin Opinion
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Financial literacy a critical college curriculumOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - In Elgin Community College's Game of Life, students move from station to station selecting a career, paying taxes and student loan payments, housing and transportation c...
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Concealed carry needed at schoolsOct 18, 2015 12:00 am - Gun-free School Zone Act is a federal U.S. law "that prohibits any unauthorized individual from knowingly possessing a firearm at a place that the individual knows or ha...
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Arming teachers would hurt, not helpOct 14, 2015 1:00 am - Two recent letters to this paper stated that arming all our classroom teachers could prevent many mass murders in America. Intruders would be deterred by the possibility...
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Leave behind PACs for homeless sheltersOct 14, 2015 12:00 am - Recently, I had occasion to visit Las Vegas for a sporting event. The thing that left the biggest impression was not the hotels, not the night life, not the scenery at n...
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Missed chance on gun controlOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - A number of the Republican presidential candidates are using Chicago as an example of how gun laws don't work. Do they remember that when the last Daley was mayor, the C...
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Editorial: Intervention a key component in campus protectionsOct 07, 2015 11:00 pm - A day after the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Oregon last week, Elgin Community College officials announced ECC had become the first college in the suburbs to...
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Editorial: U-46's 'canary' experience reveals health preparedness gapOct 05, 2015 11:00 pm - There are some things to take comfort in regarding the three-day Legionella scare at Elgin Area School District U-46. One is that people under 20 years old rarely cont...
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Real Americans want the facts about IRSOct 05, 2015 1:00 am - After reading Judson Philips' article in the Sept. 11 paper about how the IRS does its job in 2014, I would like to know the facts on how many tax cheats did they catch ...
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Thanks to all who helped health expoSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - On behalf of the Hanover Township officials and all the staff and volunteers, I would like to thank the community, sponsors and vendors for their outpouring of support f...
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If you're not angry, old and white ...Sep 30, 2015 12:00 am - Donald Trump is threatening to sue the conservative Club for Growth for running TV ads using his own words to criticize him as a "liberal" politician. How ironic is it f...