Fox River Grove Opinion
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Illinois ethics laws need teethSep 06, 2011 1:00 am - Recently, Legislative Inspector General Tom Homer wrote members of the Illinois General Assembly urging action to put some teeth into the legislator ethics laws. Homer s...
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Pro-life/pro-war belies hypocrisySep 03, 2011 5:00 am - While anti-choice proponents profess to value life, it is only as a fetus, after which the conservative or right wing group opposes life survival social programs, care f...
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Cary parents can be part of solutionSep 02, 2011 5:00 am - Cary Elementary District 26 for years has had to borrow money to pay its bills. Last summer, leaders finally determined — after the state threatened to take control of t...
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Worthy goal should become a modelSep 01, 2011 5:00 am - First, some facts and figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: Ÿ Obesity among children and adolescents has nearly tripled over the past 30 years — from just o...
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Drive safe, sober this holiday weekendAug 31, 2011 5:00 am - Tuesday was a good news/bad news day in the fight against drunken driving in Illinois. On the positive side, Secretary of State Jesse White provided statistics showing I...
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Don’t blame unions for financial messAug 30, 2011 5:02 am - The fact is that Wisconsin teachers made all the concessions that they were asked to make. The fact is that the new governors of Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio want to stop...
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Put on a hat or get back to workAug 30, 2011 5:02 am - You ask if the job has aged President Obama? No, the sun has from all that golf. Marguerite Jackson Algonquin ...
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Cooperation key in foreclosure blightAug 30, 2011 12:00 am - There is no shortage of reminders these days of the recession and the snail’s pace of its recovery. It is emphasized in a palpable fear and uncertainty of what may still...
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Let’s just call them ‘wreck’ centersAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - I don’t understand what drives elected officials to have an uncontrolled need to spend other people’s money with unemployment at almost 10 percent, with houses that have...
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Democrats wouldn’t have tried to cut debtAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - In the past few weeks I have read with great interest a few letters, most notably the one from the president of the Kendall County Democratic Women, blaming Fox News, Mi...