Glenview Opinion
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He lost EG campaign, but experience worth itApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the residents for the tremendous support that I received during this campaign for Elk Grove Village trustee. I had the great op...
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Teacher unions care deeply about kidsApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - An April 3 letter from Waukegan resident Robert J. Byrne claims the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers don’t care about teacher compe...
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Where budget cuts will lead usApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - “Savings” to the budget made by cuts to programs such as Head Start and Pell grants will be repaid with “dividends” of poverty, unemployment and increased crime. Susanne...
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No savings in school consolidationApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - Gov. Quinn has proposed that approximately 600 school districts be consolidated to reduce costs by $100 million. There are currently two pieces of legislation, HB 1216 a...
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Don’t cut Planned Parenthood fundingApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - Randy Hultgren and the Republicans have shown that they are incapable of proper governance and are not interested in deficit reduction. If they were, why would they choo...
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Be appalled by low voter turnoutApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - I was so upset about the elections, I just had to write to Fence Post, and I hope this gets in the paper. Shame on you. I could not believe the extremely low turn...
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Words you choose make a differenceApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - I would like to commend the Daily Herald and those legislators who are committed to changing the legal language to relabel terms for those who are “handicapped.” For som...
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Durbin’s hearings on Islam misguidedApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - Several years ago, Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, called my fellow members in the military worse than Stalin’s genocidal soldiers. That was an incredible insu...
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Keep oil companies’ profits in checkApr 15, 2011 2:00 am - I always thought that I knew how to spell “capitalism.” However, it appears that I was wrong. It is spelled G-R-E-E-D. Whenever costs go up for businesses, the profit go...
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Swipe-fee rollback hurts small businessApr 15, 2011 2:00 am - As a business owner, I spend most of my time focused on my business, my clients and my employees. And, it seems we keep hearing that the government wants to create jobs ...