Maple Park Opinion
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GOP candidate good for the 14thFeb 20, 2010 10:00 pm - Grass-roots support and hard work on the part of Randy Hultgren brought him to a Feb. 2nd Republican primary win for the 14th Congressional District. The general ele...
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Give our soldiers all tools they needFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - We sent our family members to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight. We then supported them with care packages of wipes, hard candies, socks, cookies; and we allowed their hands...
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A great way to meet constituentsFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - I would like to thank U.S. Rep. Bill Foster for bringing his Congress on Your Corner event to my district office recently and the many residents who stopped in to speak ...
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Primary is over; time to go GreenFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - The primary election is finally over. The Democratic and Republican parties and their candidates spent millions of dollars trying to convince you, the Illinois voters, t...
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We must find honorable leadersFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - I was not surprised to read the national headline of yet another Illinois politician engulfed in scandal. How long are we going to take the corruption from our state off...
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Lauzen's victory shows he respondsFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - State Sen. Chris Lauzen's landslide victory in the Feb. 2 primary election should be an important lesson to politicians. His opposition contended that he was not an effe...
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Leave the coyotes beFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - The story regarding coyotes on Feb. 10 reminds me of the stories of man vs. buffalo and white man vs. American Indian. Who was here first? Let's just take "their" home a...
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Buoyed by everyday kindness of othersFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - In my 70 plus years, I went here, there, everywhere automatically. No thought ... in and out of stores, regular doors, revolving doors. I did things - lifted, carried, w...
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Judge candidate thanks supportersFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - This letter is to thank everyone who supported me, voted for me and, particularly, for my campaign workers. I am proud of the campaign that we ran. I also want to assure...
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What is news? Certainly not thisFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - We live in a sick and twisted society where a mother can have her baby killed on demand and suffer no consequences from the law. Shoot a stray dog, however, and you are ...