Lakemoor Opinion
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Lawmakers should be held accountableMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - State law requires the governor to submit, and lawmakers to pass, a balanced budget each year. If lawmakers have been doing their job, Illinois would not be in the finan...
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Teachers must give like the rest of usMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Every day I hear or read about some organization asking for a tax increase for education. Of course they don't call it a tax increase, they call it education funding. If...
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Don't blame free marketMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - The free market is dying. It is sad to see what is happening to this great economic engine that is America. This country is the most prosperous and productive society on...
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GOP opposition is predictableMay 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Surely, no one is surprised by the Republican refusal to address financial reform. Let's face it, they are supported by: Wall Street, so why would they legislate in favo...
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Spirited discourse, not divisivenessMay 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Although there are many who disagree with these reforms in their entirety, most agree with many components contained in both acts. For those of us who have struggled to ...
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Program cuts won't save moneyMay 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Anna Madrzyk did an excellent job of describing the impact state budget shortfalls are having on agencies that provide care to our disabled neighbors. But the problem wi...
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Recall too drastic a measure too soonMay 02, 2010 11:00 pm - "To recall or not to recall; that is the question," to paraphrase the great William Shakespeare. It is the question that each resident of Buffalo Grove will have to deci...
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Obama never was or will be on our sideMay 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Without a doubt, the selection of Obama as the Democratic candidate for president, makes some of the trades carried off by the Bears and Cubs look like an intellectual m...
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We can't learn from distorted historyMay 01, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing this letter after having just read an article titled "Historical reality of slaveholding can't be forgotten" by Eugene Robinson and printed in the Thursday ...
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Buck up, teachersMay 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Is anyone else tired of hearing the school teachers cry about being laid off and all the cuts to the budget? They think that the answer to everything is to raise taxes s...