Elgin Opinion
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Worthy salute to peaceful, precious PathAug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - There's a general feeling, both among city dwellers and those of us who live in the suburbs, that's it's near impossible to get around the suburbs without a car. And in ...
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Legislators must reject pay raisesAug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - In May I introduced and passed House Joint Resolution 132, which rejects a scheduled pay raise for legislators. The president of the Senate, Emil Jones, has publicly st...
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Word choice shows paper's political biasAug 09, 2008 11:00 pm - I am quite sure that you are not as tired of reading my screeds as I am of writing them. I subscribe to your newspaper for the main purpose of getting the news, i.e. fac...
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage County and Fox ValleyAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Time for an explanation: The wall of silence Naperville's park district board has created around recently hired executive director Daniel Betts' sudden "leave of absence...
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Saturday Soapbox: Cook and Lake countiesAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Out-of-the-box thinking It will be interesting to see how Palatine's unorthodox approach to dealing with stormwater pans out. The village has started a pilot program to ...
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Learning Spanish should be benefitAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - I don't understand Paula Coughlan's recent letter to the Herald's Fencepost, about Obama's statements regarding teaching students Spanish. For the record, our nation has...
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Imagine how much worse things can beAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - This is in response to the Charles Krauthammer column printed in the Daily Herald on July 20. Mr. Obama certainly is charismatic and full of himself. He will bring this ...
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Will U.S. now return to a military draft?Aug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - If McCain is elected and he continues the colonization of Iraq, he must immediately start the draft. There is no alternative. Our all volunteer military can't continue t...
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Elgin has earned its bad reputationAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - We moved to Elgin with high hopes. Living in the historic district, we qualified for a grant to rehab our house. With all the upgrades being done to the city we imagined...
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D211 shouldn't have to pay prevailing wageAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Why does the school district have to pay this artificial "prevailing wage"? Everywhere everyone in the private sector is looking to cut costs. You would expect when tax ...