Ingleside Opinion
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Students deserve school choiceFeb 03, 2011 11:00 pm - Monopoly. In business, this word has become synonymous with greed, exploitation, and corruption. Why then do we readily accept monopoly control over our children’s educa...
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Lawmakers don’t understand real lifeFeb 01, 2011 11:00 pm - The recently released Education Week Research Report assigned grades to all fifty states education performance; Illinois received an overall score of 73 and ranked 40th ...
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Watch for health care smoke screenJan 31, 2011 11:00 pm - Opponents of health care reform are using expanded 1099 reporting as a smoke screen to dissuade public support and to distract from health care reform benefits, e.g., af...
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Small gestures of good, bad leave lasting marks on kidsJan 30, 2011 11:00 pm - A smart kid with good grades, Michael Spivak came from a supportive family and had just celebrated a successful bar mitzvah that ushered him into manhood. But he still w...
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Obama not managing storm of debtJan 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Imagine trying to shovel 14 inches of snow with a thimble instead of your snow shovel. Then, after making one pass across your driveway, you put away your thimble, break...
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It’s government that ‘fell down on the job’Jan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - President Obama says the U. S. “fell down on the job.” Who fell? Not the nearly 10 percent who are unemployed and the additional nearly 10 percent of people who have gi...
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Sports fans stuck with Imrem for lifeJan 27, 2011 11:00 pm - It seems to me that the readers of Mike Imrem's column in the Sports section of the Daily Herald are stuck with Mike Imrem's inane use of newsprint space for life. All ...
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Penalize companies that export jobsJan 27, 2011 11:00 pm - I was listening to NPR recently and heard about a company moving from Massachusetts to China, causing 800 people to lose their jobs and go on unemployment. The jobs will...
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Jeff Engelhardt advocates forgiveness, not death penaltyJan 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Editor's note: Jeff Engelhardt is an intern in the Daily Herald's Springfield bureau and a graduate student at the University of Illinois-Springfield, enrolled in it...
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Ask questions in Dist. 75Jan 24, 2011 11:00 pm - For all Mundelein Elementary District 75 parents, teachers, and community members, please plan on attending a meeting or sending your correspondence to the district on y...