Elgin Opinion
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Don't let lobbyists control CongressJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Ninety-three percent of Americans no longer trust their insurance companies. One hundred nineteen million Americans want a public health care option in the health care r...
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Cuts to services will cost state moreJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - With a national budget crisis, trillions of dollars are available to bail out businesses that need help. At the same time, at state level, there are not the dollars ava...
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View sounds racist if you turn it aroundJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - President Obama has nominated a liberal judge, Sonia Sotomayor, to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. Senate Democrats will, of course, vote in lock-step for her conf...
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New law targets gang recruitmentJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - With growing concerns about gang-related crimes in our neighborhoods, I wanted to take this time to highlight a particularly important piece of legislation that came out...
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Bring the 2016 Olympics here!Jun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Chicago would make a fantastic Host City for the Olympics in 2016. We have some of the best parks in the world, a beautiful lakefront, an exciting downtown, and the most...
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Let's hope signs of confidence just a startJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Nothing begets confidence like confidence. We've been in a collective clench for so long as businesses enormous and small have gone bankrupt or closed, jobs have been st...
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Where's response to gas price jump?Jun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - To President Barack Obama and Sen. Dick Durbin, I have sent to you a graph showing that unemployment increases in proportion to the increase in the price of oil. You hav...
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There's an easy fix for Social SecurityJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - I was discussing with a neighbor what should be done to save Social Security and Medicare. We both agreed the simplest and most efficient way was to raise or eliminate t...
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No debate; equal rights for all citizensJun 15, 2009 11:00 pm - I want to personally thank you for your editorial on civil unions. Whether we have access to the cultural and economic advantages of marriage should not be up for debat...
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Let the Obamas have their dateJun 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Give me a break. Now the press is stirring the pot regarding the Obama's date night. Our lackluster past president spent 487 days at Camp David and a whopping 490 days a...