Maple Park Opinion
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Skiler's plight shows need for health care fixNov 04, 2009 10:00 pm - I was extremely moved when I read the article on little Skiler Wright who was injured in a freak car accident which added to the medical challenges this child has had si...
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Blame providers, not insurersNov 03, 2009 10:00 pm - President Obama's repeated attacks on the health insurance companies are always Page 1. The Oct. 26 story reveals the meager profits of these companies is buried inside ...
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Social Security must be addressedNov 03, 2009 10:00 pm - On Oct. 21, the Daily Herald printed a column by Froma Harrop titled "Resist the urge to tinker with Social Security." She discussed the current funding situation of Soc...
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Congress should reap what it sowsNov 02, 2009 10:00 pm - The renowned author Jared Diamond was once asked his opinion regarding the future of the USA. Diamond wrote the book, "Guns, Germs and Steel." The book, a very good read...
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History fair brought old Elgin aliveNov 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Recently one could find at the Pavilion in Lords Park a sense of what Elgin was like in the late 1800s. The Elgin History Fair, first designed for the city's sesquicente...
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Dangers in our prisons?Nov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - I am writing in regard to an article written by Joseph Ryan in the Oct. 21 edition of the Daily Herald where he quoted George DeTella, a former assistant director of the...
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Library funding should be restoredNov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois libraries are struggling to cope with an unprecedented increase in usage at the same time that funding for libraries is being reduced. The FY10 budget, passed b...
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Elgin erred when laying off MonellOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - I have been a resident of Elgin for the past 20 years. I read a recent article regarding the cuts in employees to help with the city's budget woes. Although I applaud th...
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Don't feel too bad for youth prisonersOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - I thought the recent report condemning the poor conditions at the Illinois Youth Prison the goofiest and most pointless report I've read since the last goofy report. Did...
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Learn from experience in H1N1 battleOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - In Lake County, lines stretched for blocks, people stood in the rain for four hours and many seeking the H1N1 vaccine ultimately were turned away. To the south, in DuPag...