Maple Park Opinion
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What's your stance on mosque?Aug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - U.S. citizens of Illinois should be demanding all our state and national leaders to take a position on the mosque issue so we know where they stand. Their position shoul...
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Vote, Democrats, future depends on itAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Midterm elections traditionally favor the political party that doesn't hold the White House. The reason is pretty simple: the voters of the party in office think they ha...
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401(k)s better for us than pensionsAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - In the Aug. 9 Fence Post, Mr. Kosiba of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund says that the current Illinois pension system is fine the way it is and should be paid for...
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Teachers unions a JuggernautAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Our government caved in to the largest union organization in the country, the teachers union, a system with bloated administration jobs, suspect productivity, wasteful s...
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Border towns doing something rightAug 18, 2010 11:00 pm - We in America can contribute the most to suppressing the cocaine drug problem by recognizing that we are the biggest consumer of cocaine, at least in the western world. ...
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If you toss the rest, keep NolandAug 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Working people and the unemployed have become justifiably disgruntled with Illinois politicians right now and might stay home in November, or are being encouraged by som...
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Name calling isn't what we're aboutAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I don't know who I'm more upset with - the person who recently wrote a letter to the editor comparing the current majority party to Nazis and Russians, or the Daily Hera...
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Doubting health chief's motivesAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - What's up with the 360-degree turnaround of Executive Director of Kane County Health Department Paul Kuehnert since Oct. 27, 2009? My understanding was that Kuehnert was...
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Story missing objectivityAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - On Aug. 14, I thought I was reading the Tribune when I saw Christopher Wells' Associated Press article about "prison release dangers." Wells managed to blame Gov. Quinn ...
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Supporters of Obama dupedAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - On page 21 of the Aug. 6 edition of the Daily Herald, there is a short article regarding the fact that Bill Ayers, who co-founded the Weather Underground and helped bomb...