Green Oaks Opinion
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Kirk crosses aisle on transportationJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Congressman Kirk is going beyond the call of duty working on Illinois transportation issues. Not only has he obtained significant federal highway funding for Illinois, ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Lake CountyJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Loud and clear When a Lake County jury convicted a Fox River Grove teen of falsely making a terrorist threat this week, it should have sent a resounding message worth po...
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Nuances of passion sometimes are key to deciding story playJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Prominent trials are followed passionately by some people -- but not all. It was a reasonable enough question for a wife to ask her husband three days before a high scho...
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Kirk must make war views clearJun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - The recent reporting of the Senate intelligence report reminds me of a Mark Kirk declaration in a Northbrook synagogue in 2002. In a debate with Hank Perrit, he said he...
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Kirk stays strong against IranJun 06, 2008 11:00 pm - The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is in the news for yet again threatening Israel with destruction. At a celebration marking the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, ...
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Cheap gas event shows frustrationJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently, I held an event to highlight just how out of control our energy crisis has become. Here in Illinois, the cost of gas has more than doubled in the last seven y...
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Kirk deserves vote for his dedicationJun 02, 2008 11:00 pm - This letter is in rebuttal to Stephanie Victor, of Lake Forest, who incorrectly stated in her recent letter to the editor that Congressman Kirk voted against House Resol...
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Good start toward better health careMay 31, 2008 11:00 pm - It was extremely encouraging last week to hear one of the members named to a board overseeing Cook County public health care telling commissioners directly that, in ess...
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'Urgent need for change' in pensionsMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Your article "Illinois has nation's worst pension problem" provides a disturbing but accurate picture of the Illinois pension disaster. There is an urgent need for chan...
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Watch out for acting school scamsMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - I am compelled to whip together this editorial about acting school scams. I have received no less than a half dozen phone calls just recently, and dozens this spring, r...