Hanover Park Opinion
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Blago sentence shows flaws in systemDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - I feel that since Rod Blagojevich’s guilt or innocence was decided by a jury, that his sentence should have also been decided by a jury. Why do we give one person the re...
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Great job by NIU’s Lorado Taft staffDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - It’s been two weeks since I had the opportunity to spend a weekend at the Lorado Taft Campus of Northern Illinois University. I want to publicly thank the staff for suc...
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Obama shares blame for committee failureDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Like many Americans, I am not surprised that the “supercommittee” couldn’t rise to the challenge. However, unlike Eugene Robinson, who places the blame squarely on Repub...
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Insider information tempting CongressDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Steve Kroft did a nice piece on “60 Minutes Overtime” about insider trading on Capitol Hill. Al Lewis, a columnist for Dow Jones Wire, wrote a similar article about the ...
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Monkeys might as well run governmentDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Every government run by humans has eventually failed. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and now? Perhaps we should think about turning over the role of government to...
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Concerns about Nunu Sung plea dealDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - In following the custody case of Nunu Sung, I find it concerning that presiding Guardian ad Litem, Kathleen Anderson, is fighting the terms of a plea agreement by filing...
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Let residents guide budget processDec 14, 2011 12:00 am - Are we really as crazy as it seems? For the last several years, the American and world economies have been so depressed that some demographic groups have a 40-percent un...
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Elgin Council must cut, not tax moreDec 14, 2011 12:00 am - On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Elgin City Council had a “Truth in Taxation” hearing. I addressed this with my own “Truth about Taxation” comments. No nation, state or governm...
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Allow advertising in schoolsDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - Schools should permit product advertising to raise money for programs, thereby keeping citizens’ taxes low. Advertising should be permitted in public schools because it ...
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Not less government, better governmentDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - President Reagan had it mostly right: government is not the solution. What’s needed, however, is not less government but better government. Civil rights should not be ab...