Glendale Heights Opinion
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Businesses should just pay as they goSep 20, 2010 11:00 pm - We must extend Dress Up Boys tax cuts to create jobs is the popular refrain. If they create jobs, what has been happening while they were in effect? If they were so impo...
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Sue gangs? Host meetings? Why not?Sep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - With fanfare last week, Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti said he was suing 81 Latin Kings gang members who live in the Kane County part of Elgin. Gang members ...
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Laws could diminish weather extremesSep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - We all remember the 2008 Midwest flood - the "500-year storms" that dropped 12 inches of rain above normal in areas of Illinois and damaged homes and businesses across L...
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Let Dems know the orgy is overSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Well, I'll be darned. Every Democrat seeking re-election this November has been transmogrified into an "independent," curiously mum about his or her party affiliation. U...
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Keep God out of our tragedies, indeedSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - I agree with David Werdegar's letter in the Sept. 14 Daily Herald in which he said that he was tired of reading about some horrible accident where a victim was saved by ...
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Obama to blame for Bush deficitsSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - President Barack Obama with much bravado boldly announced that "buck the stops here." But Obama blames the deficits that took place before he took office on George Bush....
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Dillard would have been great candidateSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I write about your editorial "A labored look for someone to lead" for governor. There was a candidate and serious lawmaker running for governor, State Senator Kirk Dilla...
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We need to secure borders nowSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Our border with Mexico should have been secured several years ago. However in the last couple of years things have been escalating. The violence from drug cartel activit...
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How is U.S. Senate race even close?Sep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - As a former New Yorker, I am amazed that the U.S. Senate race in Illinois is even considered to be a dead heat. How is it possible that the treasurer of the state of Ill...
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News you don't see in the newspaperSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Many times a newspaper, with contributions from the Associated Press and the politicians in power, will take a story and blow it way out of proportion just to score poli...