Hoffman Estates Opinion
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Don’t let Dist. 300 students downNov 01, 2011 6:00 am - The Sears EDA tax break would be devastating to our district for many reasons you have probably heard of. The people that would suffer the most are our students. Their v...
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Candidates need you to sign petitionsOct 31, 2011 5:00 am - For Illinois residents, Sept. 6 — the first day political candidates begin circulating petitions — marked the start of the 2012 campaign season. Candidates will be knock...
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Target distracted driving among teensOct 31, 2011 5:00 am - Oct. 16-22 marked National Teen Safe Driving Week. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 5,474 people were killed on U.S. roadways and an estimated 448,000...
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Find ways to reward the generousOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Greed, in our world culture, affects and infects us both passively and actively. Greed is the primary cause of war, abortion, murder motivated by prejudice, and it is es...
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Most investors don’t get rich on stocksOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - This is in response to David Hrdlicka’s Sept. 28 letter concerning “wealthy people living off the fat of the land” when paying only 15 percent capital gains tax. Where d...
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Sharing information key to safer schoolsOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - On the surface, it appears Illinois school districts are doing what they should when it comes to cooperation between administrators and local police agencies. After all,...
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How our schools excel while failing the examOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Our children’s schools are failing. More so than ever. That’s the message being conveyed if you look strictly at the data of the 2011 report card for all schools in Illi...
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Who’d have thought we’d have a dictator?Oct 30, 2011 5:00 am - In my 84 years, I never believed I would see a man with Barack Obama’s background elected president of the United States of America. What do we the people know about him...
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Rev up the coverage of auto racingOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - I’ve been a resident of Palatine close to 70 years. When I was young, my dad (who was a race car driver in his younger days) would take me to all the local and some not-...
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Obama jobs bill is misdirectedOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - It seems President Obama is looking to bypass Congress, which looks to wisely reject his latest jobs bill. Right now, as Obama said in an recent speech, Europe is on the...