Hoffman Estates Opinion
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Throw out lawmakers who won't balance budgetSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - The elections in November are not far away. It is time for the voters to throw out the Illinois state legislators that voted for a multi-billion-dollar unbalanced budget...
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Fremd sophomore nails swim contestSep 20, 2016 5:00 am - Mary Jane (MJ) Poss finished in third place overall and second in the women's division of the 2016 Marshall County, Indiana, Blueberry Festival swimming competition. MJ ...
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Taxpayers can't afford school bond issueSep 18, 2016 1:00 am - I am against the CCSD15 bond proposal for $130 million. All this is going to do is to raise our taxes. Building two new schools is a waste of taxpayers' money. Switchin...
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Editorial: What Mayor Rooney needs to remember in SpringfieldSep 17, 2016 2:00 pm - Tom Rooney's always been one of our favorite suburban mayors. Pleasant guy; wide-eyed; boyish enthusiasm; seems genuinely open to other opinions, not just his own; an en...
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Editorial: Success combines personal determination, community supportSep 07, 2016 1:00 am - The story of Catherine Sanchez's rise from high school dropout to 30-year-old neurobiology student at Stanford University would be inspirational enough if it involved on...
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Surely, assessments can be simplifiedAug 29, 2016 1:00 am - In today's mail was a letter from the Cook County assessor about the tri-annual property reassessment to determine my property taxes for 2017. I was shocked that my asse...
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District 15 will tax us out of our homesAug 22, 2016 5:00 am - First, we get District 15 teachers a new 10-year contract shoved down our throats by Mr. Scott Thompson (aka Michael Madigan). Now he is seeking to approve borrowing $13...
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Balancing the budget should not be so hardAug 14, 2016 1:00 am - I don't understand the difficulty of balancing the Illinois state budget without taking on more debt. It would only take a 20 or 25 percent across-the-board spending re...
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Editorial: McSweeney bill would increase transparency in collective bargainingAug 13, 2016 2:00 pm - Two years ago, State Rep. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton introduced legislation to require school boards and other local governments to give the public a minimum of two weeks to...
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District 15 superintendent warns to watch out for school childrenAug 13, 2016 1:00 am - Letter to the editor Nearly 150 big yellow school buses will emerge in our community on Wednesday! These iconic transports carry over 10,500 students daily, delivering ...