Elk Grove Village Opinion
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Speed limits are least of our worriesMay 29, 2013 5:00 am - Why on earth do we need to increase the speed limit in Illinois? Highways to 70 mph? No one pays any attention to speed limit signs as it is. And has anyone in Springfie...
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Adults should accept consequences of choicesMay 27, 2013 5:00 am - Accept consequences of your choices Once again, I read how a professional athlete’s family is suing because he committed suicide and they feel it is due to the head...
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Stop building, living on flood plainsMay 26, 2013 5:00 am - We’ve just begun our annual reminder that we’ve built too many cities on flood plains. So we declare the usual disaster areas and commend our first responders for their ...
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The SoapboxMay 25, 2013 5:00 am - What’s a chaparral? It’s the formal name for a roadrunner, silly. The bird, no doubt best known through its cartoon character, is not common to Illinois. It also has bee...
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Promoting business will ease our debtsMay 24, 2013 5:00 am - Here’s a thought or two: Our former mayor of Chicago leaves a 75-year legacy of outrageous parking meter rates for our next two generations created to solve a short-term...
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Editorial: Endangered animals are needed for our health, well-beingMay 24, 2013 5:00 am - Sometimes the fate of the smallest critters creates the biggest controversies. Remember the snail darter? The tiny fish that you could fit in the palm of your hand lived...
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Please don’t toss flag out with the trashMay 23, 2013 5:00 am - Just the other day while on my annual large-item throw-out trip up in the North Shore area with a close friend who lives in that community, we observed among the other d...
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Crime, corruption ‘tax’ impacts allMay 23, 2013 5:00 am - Ms. Marni Pyke’s excellent article on the reasons behind high Chicago gas costs nevertheless missed one of the important reasons why I paid $3.59 a gallon in South Beloi...
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Protection needed in mass shootingsMay 22, 2013 5:00 am - Regarding your editorial from April 22 (“Act wisely on concealed carry, but act”), restricting concealed carry in public places like schools, movie theaters and arenas w...
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Numbers don’t add up in sequester cutsMay 22, 2013 5:00 am - So Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced 688,000 furloughs of 11 days this year due to the sequester, just like the private sector has been doing for years. Total ...