Gurnee Opinion
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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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Public deserves details of Gurnee police chief buyoutSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - Gurnee Police Chief Robert Jones abruptly retired a couple of weeks ago, leaving amid an investigation into employee complaints filed against him. With that decision, th...
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Celebrities should respect national anthemSep 17, 2011 5:00 am - Am I the only one who is totally disgusted with so-called famous singers being invited to major public events to sing our national anthem and they don’t even know all th...
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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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Community organizing a noble pursuitAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Regardless of the many crises we find ourselves in these days, I will always be proud to be an American. My father (and also my oldest sister) became an American citizen...
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Nation has been corrupted by poor leadershipAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - I hope someday to be proud to be an American again. We as a nation proved to the world that we are not racist by making Obama president, now let’s prove that we are not ...
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Get the facts on taxes, debtAug 06, 2011 3:00 am - Dear tea party, I have a little history lesson for you. 1. The Boston Tea Party was not about high taxes, the taxes on tea were actually lower than the smuggled tea the...
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Don’t forget about GOP-backed warJul 09, 2011 12:00 am - In response to Michael Hanley’s letter to the editor on May 28, he mentions all of the great things the Republicans did, but he also forgot what Richard Nixon did, and m...
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Citizens must get involvedJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - Jim Slusher’s recent article regarding political “gerrymandering” (defined as “dividing election districts so as to gain partisan advantage”) is right on. In Illinois th...