Elgin Opinion
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Government needs to tighten belts, tooDec 13, 2008 10:00 pm - People are experiencing home values that are declining. But for some reason this has no effect on the government, local educational systems, i.e. school districts, colle...
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Time to eliminate dropout optionDec 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Since the dropout age of high school students is 17, more and more teenagers are taking advantage of this situation. Completing high school and earning their diploma sho...
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Change the rules to encourage loansDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - President-elect Obama announced the primary members of his economic team. It has been widely reported that two of the main problems with our being able to "fix" our eco...
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Take a look at your reassessmentDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - By now everyone in Dundee Township has received their "revised" property assessment from our township Assessor Dan McMahon. I am assuming most people received an increas...
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Don't give up on public serviceDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Governor Blagojevich ran on a platform of change and reform, always insisting that he was in it to serve the people. Now it is clear that he was in it only to serve hims...
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Tredup thanks you for your supportDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - To all of the voters in District 22 who voted for me again and to those of you who voted for me for the first time this year - my sincere thanks. And to my wonderful nei...
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Media should let us decide about ObamaDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - While I in no way disagree with Cynthia Tucker's assertion, in her recent editorial, that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency demonstrates America's renewed c...
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First-time author grateful to libraryDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - In this Thanksgiving season, I offer belated gratitude to Schaumburg Township Public Library. This thanks is for stocking my first and maybe only book, "Planet Hibernia ...
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Limit CEO pay, add strings to bailoutsDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - On Nov. 18 appeared yet another editorial by George Will. Right Wing World is pretty adamant these days that there should be no $25 billion bailout of the Big Three auto...
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Incompetence is root of Big 3 issueDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Cal Thomas blames the Democrats and the UAW for the auto industry's latest woes. Yet he conveniently fails to mention that for the past seven years it was a Republican P...