Elk Grove Village Opinion
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Students shouldn't be political pawnsMar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Area schools run elections and mock elections with some regularity. When they do, all candidates, or those portraying them, typically get a chance to campaign, to presen...
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Isn't there a better word than 'hero?'Mar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - So often we hear our military, nurses, doctors, teachers, firemen, policemen, etc. referred to as "heroes." They are not heroes; they are normal socially responsible Ame...
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Bailed out banks should be kinderMar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Even after a lavish bank bailout, banks are allowed to charge the jobless a fee for accessing their unemployment benefits? Insane! Why a mandate forbidding this practice...
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Forest district pursues bad policiesMar 11, 2009 11:00 pm - As a former Cook County Forest Preserves employee, I feel compelled to express my profound disapproval of the corrosive, misguided policies euphemistically referred to a...
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When will we learn from our history?Mar 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Watching the media sparks my memory of history, let's see if I got it right. When we entered the Bush era we had a budget surplus. Then by enacting major tax cuts while ...
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Festival cutbacks aren't wisest choiceMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just a few days ago in this space, we urged suburban residents to resist the temptation to let fear of this wretched economy get the best of us. Rather than hunkering d...
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Media rarely shares abortion foes' viewsMar 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Ellen Goodman pontificates about once a week on the issue of Abortion and the safe-sex agenda. She brings a secular and often misleading assessment of the issues. In her...
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Shame might stop offensive postsMar 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Several months ago, the Daily Herald wrote an opinion piece asking posters to their Web site responding to articles and letters to be more civil, as the number of Terms ...
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Let the wealthy solve the problemMar 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Here's my idea to conquer the recession/depression. Ask all well-to-do Americans, and this is the key value and secret cornerstone of capitalism - if not yet revealed, t...
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Close bank satellites before bailing outMar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - Say no to the bailout until banks sell some assets such as the thousands of satellite banking centers. If there are as many little banks on every other intersection as t...