Grayslake Opinion
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Prop up union that doesn't support self?May 29, 2010 11:00 pm - The EU is comprised of 27 countries, with the Eurozone consisting of 16 of those same participants. Some union. That's like saying there are 50 states in the United Stat...
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Financial 'reform' will likely hurtMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - I read with interest today a letter written by David Vite, president of an organization called the Illinois Retail Merchants Association. The point of the letter was to ...
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Working to improve safety in IllinoisMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - The legislature sent two very important pieces of legislation to the governor's desk. Both bills are designed to improve public safety. As the sponsor of these bills, I ...
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Use more scrutiny to fill school jobsMay 03, 2010 11:00 pm - The story of Grayslake Elementary District 46's inept hiring of Edward Towle should be an employment lesson for school officials everywhere. A mix of deception, lack of ...
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Obama's naiveté putting us at riskApr 30, 2010 11:00 pm - In the 1930s, Neville Chamberlain was the most dangerous man in the world. His naiveté and ignorance of human nature led to his disastrous appeasement of Hitler, which l...
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Hope lawmakers will suffer, tooApr 30, 2010 11:00 pm - We all remember the eloquent words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she opined that the Congress had to pass health care legislation in order for everyone to learn wha...
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They're hiding key records from youApr 29, 2010 11:00 pm - A strong majority of Illinois senators, including many from our suburbs, sent Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn a bill Thursday that would make it much more difficult for taxpay...
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Bravo to Bean for backing her peopleApr 23, 2010 11:00 pm - The health care reform legislation is not perfect. Neither were the Bush tax cuts, a uniquely financed Iraq war, or the Medicare Reform Act that banned any effort to lev...
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Pension plan hurts wrong peopleApr 23, 2010 11:00 pm - The "pension reform" rushed through the legislature is a drastic solution that punishes the blameless for a problem created by government mismanagement. The only reason ...
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A creative way to do more for lessApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Call it a vote for fiscal restraint. It came last week in Hainesville, where village officials decided to live within their means and replace, rather than expand, the tw...