Huntley Opinion
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Limit p-card use, ensure transparencyAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - It’s much easier to hand a clerk your debit card than it is to hand over money. It’s one reason casinos have you play with chips instead of cash. So it follows that it’s...
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One way to create term limitsAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - It is time, actually way past time, for another revolution. What is going on now in Congress, and has for the past several decades, is truly taxation without representat...
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If you don’t vote, it’s all your faultAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - People are finally paying attention to the problems our state and federal governments are dealing with today. Some say that those bad radical tea party people are behind...
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Farnham is in touch with constituentsAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - I want to recognize State Rep. Keith Farnham for doing the right thing and voting to cut his own pay. Too often legislators are involved with only themselves, removed fr...
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No curtain call for debt ceiling charadeAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - It is high time alert citizens close the curtain of falsely dichotomous political theater with respect to the fire alarm gimmick known as the federal “debt ceiling.” Bot...
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Put down your cell; watch for workersAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - Welcome to the construction season in a town near you. During the summer months bridges and roads are being repaired or replaced, the parkway grass and trees are getting...
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Who will save planet if not us?Aug 03, 2011 3:00 am - I am a Columbia College Chicago student and like many students my age I see solutions to the urgent climate crisis being pushed aside by our politicians and media in fav...
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Don’t use GI’s as pawns in budget debateAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - An open letter to the President: As Commander in Chief, using the military as a pawn in the debt debate was despicable. How are you going to look a GI in the eye when yo...
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Enough intransigence from tea partyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - Where did the tea party members of Congress ever get the notion that the citizens of this nation were willing to walk off an economic cliff to support their intransigent...
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Hemp, solar, wind won’t solve problemAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - It’s difficult to tell whether opinions recently expressed in Fence Post about climate change and energy are due to a lack of knowledge or bad logic. First, with respect...