Elk Grove Village Opinion
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Walsh-Modi ties irrelevant to 8th Dist.Jun 13, 2012 5:00 am - With unemployment on the rise, the number of new jobs created drops from month to month and the stock market is falling; what makes the front page news of the Sunday Dai...
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Editorial: Relay for Life a worthy investmentJun 12, 2012 5:00 am - Perhaps you were one of 765 participants at Barrington High School last weekend. Or one of the 26 teams at Hersey High School. Or perhaps you are planning to show up at ...
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Roselle fest not worth cost to commutersJun 12, 2012 1:00 am - Every year for at least the past three years, hundreds of Metra riders such as me who park at the Roselle station are inconvenienced by the village‘s Rose Festival carni...
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Bear the burden of our own retirementsJun 10, 2012 5:00 am - Municipal, county, state, federal — the story is the same. Pensions are underfunded and government officials don’t know what to do about it. We know how we got here. At ...
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Zoning board ruling on COD was wiseJun 10, 2012 4:46 am - On May 10, 260 unhappy homeowners/taxpayers stated their opposition to College of DuPage’s expansion plans. Too many large (3 stories high) structures that are within 10...
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Contributions of nuns vital to churchJun 09, 2012 5:00 am - Let me begin by saying I am a cradle Catholic and a practicing one with 12 years of parochial education, so I criticize sadly. The Vatican attack on nuns is nothing more...
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The SoapboxJun 09, 2012 5:00 am - Ray and the first morning of summer: Here's how Ray Bradbury wrote about growing up in Waukegan in the intro to “Dandelion Wine.” “It was a quiet morning, the town cover...
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Voting rights not encumbered by IDJun 09, 2012 5:00 am - Michael E. Fredian argues in the May 5 Fence Post against voter ID laws, stating that such laws are unnecessary because voter fraud is almost non-existant. He cites figu...
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Sensible ways to reduce the deficitJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - The House Republicans recently approved a plan to reduce the federal deficit. Simply stated the Republican plan calls for reducing or eliminating spending on social prog...
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Why can’t Congress, Obama get a clue?Jun 08, 2012 5:00 am - If you are in your 50s and 60s you may be wondering what happened to our country. How did we get to a point where everything seems to be turned upside down and backward?...