Elk Grove Village Opinion
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Putting cure ahead of preventionMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1424 calling for equal treatment of mental illness and substance abuse on par with other medical illnesses, but there still...
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The GOP's 'best' has created a messMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - In Marc Thompson's recent letter, he mockingly referred to Al Gore as "the best the Democrats could come up with" in 2000. Let's look at the facts. In 2000, more Americ...
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Pat Botterman will be rememberedMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - It is with great sadness that I read of the passing of Pat Botterman. I had come to know Pat when I ran on a bipartisan slate for a township post. I found that Pat had a...
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Clinton would be awful as presidentMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - This is regards to the letter written by Ginger Marcuccelli (Feb. 8). She is berating women for not backing Hillary Clinton and states it is women's duty to support he...
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Embryonic stem cell research flawedMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR) is another pie-in-the-sky idea whose time is over. I've tried to do research to compare ESCR to ASCR (Adult stem cell research); I r...
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Still putting cure ahead of preventionMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The U.S. House passed H.R. 1424, calling for equal treatment of mental illness and substance abuse on par with other medical illnesses, but there still is a long way to...
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Shooting story shows paper's biasMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Working in law enforcement since 1967, I thought I would have gotten accustomed to the media and would not have let a news article bother me -- but your bias and dislike...
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Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
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Saturday Soapbox: Border warsMar 14, 2008 11:00 pm - First there were the Hatfields and the McCoys. Then, the gamblers and the non-gamblers. Followed by the smokers and the non-smokers. But Cook County's recent sales tax h...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...