Glenview Opinion
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The SoapboxJul 01, 2011 12:00 am - Leave it to experts: Yes, you've heard it often, but it's time again for that annual reminder: Leave the fireworks to the experts. They put on a much better show ...
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Have patience with English learnersJul 01, 2011 12:00 am - I agree 100 percent with Ms. Cepeda’s column titled “When the accent is on the language.” Yes, it may be difficult for those of us who speak only English to understand a...
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Stick to the important issuesJul 01, 2011 12:00 am - Well, Rep. Anthony Weiner has resigned. He has disgraced himself and his family. His sophomoric high jinks have lead him to shame. He is a doofus. But his actions did n...
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The wealthy don’t need another boostJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - Well, it seems that a pair in the Republican presidential race, Tim Pawlenty and Newt Gingrich, have both endorsed the typical right-wing Fox News mantra of cutting the ...
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‘Respect life’ banner belongs in paradeJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - Tell me I didn’t see that article in the Herald stating the Jaycees, a private organization that sponsors the Fourth of July festival, voted unanimously to ban the banne...
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Contributors deserve their Medicare benefitsJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - Remember when the politicians gave themselves a big raise a year or so ago and took the money out of the Medicare fund? Well, we should make them put it back and then so...
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How could all those kids be missing?Jun 30, 2011 3:00 am - I’m a little curious about the numbers quoted by Kristi Lafleur and John Jesernik in the letter about child ID cards (Fence Post, June 13). They state that 2,100 childre...
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Clarifying the facts on Social SecurityJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - I would like to correct two factual errors in a letter published June 4. The author, Mr. Gosch, incorrectly stated that “the Democrats stole the Social Security Funds, p...
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Target entitlements, not military costsJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - The “peace dividend” took over $100 billion from the military and moved it into social welfare programs in the 1990s. I think people who now say the military should be r...
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Republicans are all about freedomJun 27, 2011 9:00 pm - Abraham Lincoln, a Republican president, freed the slaves. A Republican Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Republicans want Americans to “be all they can be.”...