Glenview Opinion
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Workers’ comp law weighs on businessesMay 02, 2011 12:00 am - Illinois lawmakers can truly help our state and local economy by reforming the state’s workers’ compensation laws. These are the laws that determine how medical costs ar...
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Sirabian: Thank you for your confidenceMay 02, 2011 12:00 am - I would like to thank the residents of Buffalo Grove for placing their confidence in me for another term as village clerk. The plus in this campaign was that the support...
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Facts about teacher pay in District 57May 02, 2011 12:00 am - As a teacher for 42 years in Mount Prospect District 57, I support Rich Benson’s letter detailing how D57 students will be hurt by recent administrative decisions. The o...
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Unions serve as a check and balanceMay 01, 2011 12:00 am - I must take issue with the anti-union position recently written by Jeff Gorden. His position is that public sector unions “bargain for wages and benefits coming out of o...
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Looks like not much has changedMay 01, 2011 12:00 am - Let’s see what the difference is between our nation under former President George W. Bush and our current commander-in-chief, Barack Obama. Under Bush, the U.S. had rela...
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Medicare shouldn’t be GOP’s targetApr 29, 2011 12:00 am - The recession is far from over and so many people in my community are struggling to pay their bills, find a decent job and make a good life for their kids. Yet this real...
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Vice president sleeping on the jobApr 29, 2011 12:00 am - Joe Biden, our vice president, fell asleep during President Obama’s debt speech. The media is making a joke of this. Would any one of us keep a job if we fell asleep at ...
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A veteran recognizes soldier’s sacrificesApr 29, 2011 12:00 am - A letter to Lt. Matt Spartz: I have just finished reading your column in this morning’s Herald. I want to let you know that I am grateful for your concern for our countr...
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Hypocrisy is oozing from the rightApr 29, 2011 12:00 am - It was another week of hypocrisy from the right. Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl lied about Planned Parenthood on the floor of the U.S. Senate, then said his lie “wasn’t meant to b...
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Who are we fooling about Afghanistan?Apr 29, 2011 12:00 am - More than 480 militant Taliban inmates escape from an Afghan prison by “crawling” 350 yards through a 3-foot-wide hole in 4½ hours. Let’s look at the math. Sending 480 p...