Hanover Park Opinion
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Palatine postal patrons come through againMay 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Thank you to the Palatine postal patrons who donated food to the annual letter carrier food drive. Special thanks goes once again to the Boy Scouts who gave us tremendou...
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High school, VFW make good matchMay 30, 2010 11:00 pm - A successful collaboration between the business world and the education world took place this month. Panera LLC approached VFW Post 5151 Operation Airlift coordinator Ed...
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Cigarette tax benefits go beyond moneyMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Cigarette smoking results in more than 16,000 Illinois deaths per year, with more than 2,000 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke. As Illinois considers its decisi...
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Legal immigrants should be outragedMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Burt Constable's column regarding stealing education struck a nerve. What is the difference between the theft of education, services and health care by illegal aliens th...
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Out-of-control teacher pensionsMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - The recent comments in the Fence Post by Don Young are all over the map and distort the facts. You will find that proponents such as Mr. Young will use "averages" as muc...
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Baby oil prank stupid, disappointingMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - The adage that "It's only funny until someone gets hurt ... and then it's hilarious" rarely holds true upon closer inspection. And rarely do pranksters think through the...
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Oil spill relegated to back pagesMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Even before the gushing oil flow that began April 20 is stopped, newspapers are already assigning coverage of the disaster to their back pages. Perhaps they conclude th...
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Self-centered foes thwarted NavistarMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - It is a mixed blessing to live in a country where great efforts are made to protect honest people from the misuse of power, only to realize that those protections can th...
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Teacher unions must change their demandsMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - In the Daily Herald article "Education unions call for a tax increase" (May 14) Mr. Steve Preckwinkle of the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) was quoted as criticiz...
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Don't have to agree with Palin book parodyMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - So Sarah Palin stumbled on some questions about foreign affairs. How many citizens outside of government are up to snuff on all that transpires in our world? I wonder ho...