Hanover Park Opinion
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Bipartisan solution is needed on reformAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - As Congress starts its August recess, it's clear that health care reform is at the top of the nation's agenda. Congressman Mark Kirk has recently presented his own propo...
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Marriage is for any two people in loveAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - On Aug. 25, a letter was published by a writer who clearly did not approve of gay marriage. The letter asked the Daily Herald to not publish same sex marriage announceme...
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District 204 parents have been dupedAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Ladies and gentlemen of Indian Prairie School District 204, you've been duped. In 2005, District 204 presented to voters a referendum to build a third high school. It wa...
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Stimulus roads lead to nowherAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Two concepts are bound to hit a dead end. First, let's take the case of the stimulus money going into road construction. The jobs created by this effort are going to end...
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Market hasn't worked with health careAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - There has been a good deal of discussion about whether we need a public option to provide real competition to private insurance companies. For more than thirty years I w...
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Ban cell phones while drivingAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Today, my husband and his best friend went for a ride on their motorcycles. It was a perfect summer day for a ride. While riding through Skokie, a car driver nearly caus...
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Work for consensus on health care planAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Our government's approach to health care reform appears similar to the knee-jerk reactions that resulted in the Iraq war and the stimulus packages. Both were done in has...
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Why not compassion in health debate?Aug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Fear and trembling, anger and divisiveness. Are these the appropriate ways to approach health care? Is truth found in unquestioning loyalty to a political party? Isn't t...
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More government boondoggle?Aug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - For all of you who want a new health care system, who complain that it's broken, doesn't cover enough people, is to expensive and is bloated ... Well, it was set up less...
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Applaud gay couple announcementAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - I just read the letter from Sue A Smith of Bloomingdale, and it mad me mad. I, too, saw the announcement of the two men who had exchanged vows in the Celebrate section o...