Elgin Opinion
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Driscoll teaches a lesson for hard timesMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - The financial realities of this economic downturn hit home with two big news stories this week: the closure of Driscoll Catholic High School and the forecast that the nu...
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Health care reform is sorely neededMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - United States citizens pay per capita about twice what citizens of England, France, Canada and other advanced countries pay for health care. Still, we get lower life exp...
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Ayers has no place at Elgin luncheonMay 01, 2009 11:00 pm - What bizarre-o world is this where the Elgin service organization, Kiwanis Club, is hosting the unrepentant domestic terrorist bomber William Ayers to speak at its May l...
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Customer service shouldn't be lip serviceMay 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Periodically while traveling I run into ... one of them. "I only have you a short time this morning, folks," says the bus driver at Houston's Bush Airport as he shuts th...
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Mayors lost because they were RepublicanApr 30, 2009 11:00 pm - I will try to explain why Republican mayors and village presidents were defeated in the April election. No. 1: Eight years of Bush, who was anti health care; anti enviro...
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Senator deceives voters and their willApr 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Senator Matt Murphy, a Republican from Palatine, has flip-flopped between principles when it suits his political goals. The reason more than 50 percent of voters say the...
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Daley is part of county's problemApr 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Commissioner John Daley's recent letter to the editor was an entertaining work of fiction - but the taxpayers of Cook County deserve the truth. As Finance Chairman, Comm...
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Having trouble? AA can helpApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - If you have tried to give up drinking for Lent and fell short of your goal, you might want to contact some people who know how. Alcoholics Anonymous can be reached at (8...
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Gaming dollars help the economyApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - I was disappointed to read John Kindt's latest assault on the gaming entertainment industry in a recent edition of the Daily Herald ("Illinois prof says economic fix sta...
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Playing the tape invades privacyApr 25, 2009 11:00 pm - I had occasion to call 911 when I found my husband dead in my home. I was hysterical but could not control my emotions. Although it was not due to violence I would be hu...