Hoffman Estates Opinion
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Cold War vets deserve recognitionOct 01, 2016 1:00 am - The 25th anniversary of the official end of the Cold War is coming up in a short three months, and still we Cold War veterans are given the "cold shoulder" for long over...
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Campaigns need more focus on abortionSep 29, 2016 1:00 am - During the first presidential debate, the topic of abortion did not come up. Neither candidate was asked about taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. I was thinking ab...
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Nothing new revealed in first debateSep 29, 2016 1:00 am - The first 2016 Presidential Debates set a world's record for the most people watching (84 million), all wasting the same 90 minutes of their lives. I learned nothing n...
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Distinct differences were on displaySep 29, 2016 1:00 am - These two candidates could not be more different. Hillary is a person who has spent her career in the legal and political arena. Trump has spent his career in real est...
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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...