Grayslake Opinion
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Columnist misses facts on climate changeNov 02, 2011 5:00 am - Since Eugene Robinson didn’t mind calling Republicans neo-Luddites, let me have some fun with his sadly misinformed column. I just happen to be reading James Michener’s ...
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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)...