Hoffman Estates Opinion
-
Saturday Soapbox: Those ringing phonesMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - A bill has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly that would ban those annoying "robo-calls" from politicians seeking your vote. You have to like this bill, t...
-
Dilemma of Iraq: stay in or get outMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Some years ago, we entered Iraq for fear of atomic and biological weapons in the hands of a rogue government. Whether right or wrong, that decision is now history. The ...
-
Pat Botterman will be rememberedMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - It is with great sadness that I read of the passing of Pat Botterman. I had come to know Pat when I ran on a bipartisan slate for a township post. I found that Pat had a...
-
Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
-
New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
-
Bill Clinton re-do: Could this happen?Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Hillary wins the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States. Naturally, she wants as her running mate someone with a lot of knowledge and experienc...
-
Economic news isn't that dismalMar 09, 2008 11:00 pm - I grow weary of economic analysts that continually use data for purposes of gloomy sensationalistic rhetoric. When job and housing reports shift, they claim we are eithe...
-
Come talk to us about state budgetMar 09, 2008 11:00 pm - As the General Assembly begins its spring legislative session, Illinois faces serious budget challenges. Lawmakers and the governor will have to make difficult decisions...
-
It is easy to stop using plastic bagsMar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - You do the readers of the area a great service by pointing out the potential disastrous results of our continued use of so many of these bags. It is mind-boggling to thi...
-
Imagining what might happenMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Mr. Dulan asked us to imagine the carnage at NIU if 20 or 30 armed and frightened students had opened fire. I imagined one dead sniper and three or four students that m...