Grayslake Opinion
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Obama rhetoric is not fooling anyoneOct 29, 2011 6:00 am - The Occupy Wall Street protests are EXACTLY what President Obama wanted. This president, who was supposed to bring this country together, has divided it like no other. H...
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Safeguards needed for government tablets useOct 11, 2011 5:00 am - It’s easy to be impressed with the iPad and other tablet computers. Sleek, portable, lightweight technology at your fingertips. What’s not to like? Just as they are embr...
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Suburban link missing in charter schools panelOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - The charter school experiment has had mixed results in the Chicago suburbs. With a handful of exceptions — perhaps most notably in Pingree Grove and Grayslake — they hav...
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Focus on adjunct quality, not quantityOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - As a way to save costs, community colleges have increasingly hired adjunct instructors. Bargain that they are, part-timers also allow schools to easily fill gaps and exp...
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Moving on from a public mistakeOct 04, 2011 9:00 am - State Sen. Suzi Schmidt used very poor judgment when she called 911 last Christmas Day to suggest dispatchers ignore her husband if he called. As a former Lake County Bo...
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The Soapbox: Fermilab tests speed-of-light barrierSep 24, 2011 4:00 am - The earth moves — fast: Scientists at Fermilab will be whipping subatomic particles around an accelerator tunneled beneath the suburbs, trying to replicate or refute an ...
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The SoapboxSep 17, 2011 5:00 am - Wheaton hero honored: Thoughtful work went into the efforts of a committee that recommended the commons of Wheaton North High School be named for Staff Sgt. Robert Mille...
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Community college a valuable resourceSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - History has told us that as the economy sours, more and more people turn to their neighborhood community college to regroup, retrain and look for new careers. And that h...
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Hate speech and the hypocrisy of liberalsSep 10, 2011 5:00 am - When Gabriel Giffords was tragically shot in January and liberals blamed it on tea party rhetoric (we now know she was shot by a mentally insane liberal college student)...
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Democrats must accept blame for economySep 07, 2011 4:00 am - Democrats love to lament that they had no real appreciation for the mess of the economy George Bush left for President Obama to have to clean up, thus asking for more ti...