Hanover Park Opinion
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Keep eyes wide open in a pet adoptionJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - A local pet adoption business recently had a dog named Boo available for adoption. A potential home for Boo was found, a wonderful couple in Inverness. The foster parent...
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Why ship Rusty the dog out of state?Jan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - Regarding the article about Rusty the stray dog, I was wondering why all of the good people who fed and cared for him, none were willing to adopt or find a home for him ...
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Government guided by conscienceJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - I was so heartened by the Jan. 20 letter in the paper telling of the website, nolabels.org. Awareness of how we use labels in our daily conversations is a first step to ...
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End government 'of the select'Jan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - Thanks to the many past and present self-serving members of Congress and other government officials, what used to be a government “of the people, by the people, for the ...
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Don’t make political hay out of shootingJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - In regard to Tim Schmidgall’s Fence Post Jan. 19, please provide your facts regarding your comment of “certain groups have been spreading lies, and hate,” which lead to ...
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Civil War indeed centered on slaveryJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - On Jan. 2, letter writer Steve Quick attempted to say that the Civil War (or, as he probably calls it, The War of Northern Aggression) was not about slavery by using sel...
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Responsibility must attend free speechJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - A few months ago I received via e-mail a collection of very embarrassing photos of first lady Michelle Obama. Everyone knows that even the most glamorous movie star can ...
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Too many barriers hinder aid to HaitiJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - A 1992 graduate of Elk Grove High School, I was proud to read Jamie Sotonoff’s “Elk Grove mom’s ‘little project’ saves thousands in Haiti” (Dec. 19). Now a professor at ...
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Thanks, legislators, for your ‘integrity’Jan 25, 2011 12:00 am - I would like to thank Pat Quinn, Michael Madigan and John Cullerton for their great work in passing a massive tax hike in the middle of the night to save our state from ...
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Too many enjoying a free lunchJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - Recently Vice President Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth, again. This time however, I agreed with him. He stated that “paying taxes was patriotic.” Now at the time he...