Indian Creek Opinion
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Stop signs, lights are not optionalApr 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Stop: To cease or halt the movement, progress, action, or operation of. (Heritage Dictionary) Once again I was almost rear-ended by a soccer mom talking on her cell phon...
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Kirk not listening to his constituentsApr 23, 2010 11:00 pm - I felt the necessity to write my local congressman Mark Kirk. I usually don't get a response and I felt that it was important to tell the public that some of the people ...
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Bean not much of a 'representativeApr 23, 2010 11:00 pm - The health care debate and its passage has been a polarizing issue, polarizing on the constituents and their representatives. Any poll of the 8th Congressional District ...
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Bravo to Bean for backing her peopleApr 23, 2010 11:00 pm - The health care reform legislation is not perfect. Neither were the Bush tax cuts, a uniquely financed Iraq war, or the Medicare Reform Act that banned any effort to lev...
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Pension plan hurts wrong peopleApr 23, 2010 11:00 pm - The "pension reform" rushed through the legislature is a drastic solution that punishes the blameless for a problem created by government mismanagement. The only reason ...
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A creative way to do more for lessApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Call it a vote for fiscal restraint. It came last week in Hainesville, where village officials decided to live within their means and replace, rather than expand, the tw...
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Become familiar with invasive speciesApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Day by day the world is getting smaller, shrinking due to improvements in transportation and communications. Global economics rule the marketplace. Uncounted benefits ac...
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It's about business, not about socialismApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - I've grown tired of the diatribe about socialism, big government and free markets. Those who blog about these things do so on the Internet built by DARPA, using computer...
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Be alert and keep work zones safeApr 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Two-hour trips on the Eisenhower Expressway. Lane closures on I-355. Construction on roads that otherwise might be used as alternates from both of those projects. It's e...
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Solve crisis the way early settlers didApr 17, 2010 11:00 pm - We are facing a crisis in government. A virus, in the form of liberalism and socialism, has infected the fabric of our Constitution. The first visible impact occurred du...