Hanover Park Opinion
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Another affront from Stroger & Co.Jun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - It's more than nice that Cook County officials paid tribute last Thursday to one of the suburbs' most legendary county commissioners by renaming Shoe Factory Road Woods ...
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The uninsured pose too great a costJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Forty million residents without health care coverage are an epidemic at any time. Just visit any hospital today and see the increased number of isolation patients with c...
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Senate race presents lesser of two evilsJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Get out and vote, we're told. You have no right to complain if you don't. That is what I have always believed and still do. Yet over the years I have found myself voting...
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BP never cared about environmentJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Millions spent on research on how to drill deep in the ocean. Fifteen cents spent on what to do when things go wrong. BP never cared about the environment, and it's all...
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Trouble ahead if you don't claim incomeJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - When the Gulf oil disaster first happened I was concerned for the fishermen and their livelihood. But now I'm not. BP has offered to pay them for their lost earning if t...
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Winfield mailer was hardly 'anonymous'Jun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - On June 1, the Daily Herald ran a Fence Post letter from Rock Rocket: "Why an anonymous mailing in Winfield?" The fact is, it wasn't anonymous, and how anyone could mak...
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Average teacher pension is $40,000Jun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - This letter is in response to Al Palash, who questioned my use of the average teacher pension of $40,000 in the state of Illinois as "distorting the facts" in my origina...
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Scaled-back space program makes senseJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - I am in complete agreement with President Barack Obama's decision to change the space program. Though we have had large gains from some of our space exploration, the neg...
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Soapbox: Actions speak louder than wordsJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Actions speak louder than words: Go ahead, Cook County commissioners, and express your outrage over Arizona's immigration law with your vote to boycott businesses from t...
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Pray for quick end to Gulf oil disasterJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - A neighbor of mine who was born in Poland, exiled to Siberia in 1942 to die, and is with us today as a result of a series of miracles (as she stated), asked that I send ...