Hoffman Estates Opinion
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If capitalists cared, they'd help climateJan 09, 2016 12:00 am - A Herald contributor a few days ago stated that the Paris meetings were about eliminating capitalism. Americans and friends, if the giant corporations on this planet don...
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Christmas damaged by political correctnessDec 29, 2015 12:00 am - During World War II, the Nazi party banned the celebration of Christmas. After the allied victory and the rebuilding of Germany, the people once again celebrated Christm...
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Your editorial on transgender student is insaneDec 26, 2015 4:11 am - Last Friday the Daily Herald editorial board made an astonishing statement regarding the gender dysphoric teenage boy at the center of the District 211 controversy over ...
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Editorial: Find cause of shrinking achievement gap for Hispanics at ECC and spread itDec 16, 2015 10:00 pm - As the Daily Herald's Poverty Achievement Index has borne out, whether in previous standardized state tests or the just-released results of the new PARCC test, there is ...
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Editorial: Boards squelch dissent, distort record when they pressure for unanimityDec 14, 2015 12:00 am - There is order. And then there's order. The good people who have been elected to the school board in Palatine Township Elementary District 15 believe in order. They perm...
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Editorial: With transgender decision made, time for understanding in District 211Dec 11, 2015 12:00 am - It takes real courage for an 8th grade student to come back to school after summer break as a different gender. And it takes parental love to recognize that the transiti...
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Tax increases are wrong for Cook CountyNov 24, 2015 12:00 am - Last Wednesday, the Cook County Board passed its 2016 budget, which is balanced by over half a billion dollars in new taxes. I voted NO. Next year, you will pay more to ...
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Dist. 211 needs to do what's right for most studentsNov 18, 2015 5:18 am - It was many years, but I remember it well. I was taking a Red Cross course in advanced first aid and at the previous session we had been given a test on triage. At that ...
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Rome and roadwork not built in a dayNov 09, 2015 4:00 am - It has been said that Rome wasn't built in a day and that is certainly true of the rebuilding of Salem Drive in Schaumburg. It took only seven months to complete the rep...
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Editorial: Suburban schools take necessary step in heroin battleNov 02, 2015 10:00 pm - It's taken some time, but the shift in attitudes toward combating the suburban heroin epidemic has taken hold. And nowhere is that more evident than in our high schools,...