Glendale Heights Opinion
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Prisoner swap: Gitmo to IllinoisJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - America needs to close its spectacularly successful terrorist recruiting tool in Guantanamo, and Illinois is $9 billion dollars in debt. Let's make a deal. The Land of ...
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Pitfalls are plenty of video pokerJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Congratulations to Burt Constable for his superb May 28 column pointing out the pitfalls of video poker. Mr. Constable wisely interviewed Dr. John Warren Kindt, an econo...
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Please take blinders off, Ms. SotomayorJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - I want to say that I think it is admirable to see all that Sonia Sotomayor had to overcome in order to be considered as a Supreme Court Justice. Her rise to the top para...
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It's all about a Dugan convictionJun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm writing about my concerns over the pretrial hearings on the Brian Dugan case in DuPage County Judge George Bakalis' courtroom. I learned through a Daily Herald artic...
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Local law powers shouldn't match fedsJun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm a strong proponent of our system of checks and balances in government. That is why alarm bells went off when I learned that the Illinois Reform Commission was propos...
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Whipped cream for our enemies?Jun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - President Obama might have set a good example in banning waterboarding as a means of getting information from our enemies. Our present and future enemies will now be da...
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The law, it seems, has feelings, tooJun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - With the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court, the blindfold on Lady Justice's face has slipped. I view this with trepidation. Ms. Sotomayor believes...
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Property taxes outpacing pay increasesMay 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Thank you for your May 18 article on DuPage County property taxes. It certainly raised my awareness that falling property values won't decrease my property tax bill as g...
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Need a full accounting of county jobsMay 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Dear Members of the Finance Committee: I read the article in Thursday's Daily Herald regarding DuPage County's hiring of summer workers, and wanted to provide you with m...
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Pelosi cartoon was incredibly offensiveMay 29, 2009 11:00 pm - The cartoon depicting first female Speaker of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a witch is incredibly offensive. It is not funny, it doesn't make sense, and is political...