Maple Park Opinion
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Don’t mess with Social SecurityAug 05, 2011 11:00 pm - The Republican representatives who ran for office last November saying that jobs were going to be their first priority have not brought up one jobs bill to be voted on. ...
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Limit p-card use, ensure transparencyAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - It’s much easier to hand a clerk your debit card than it is to hand over money. It’s one reason casinos have you play with chips instead of cash. So it follows that it’s...
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One way to create term limitsAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - It is time, actually way past time, for another revolution. What is going on now in Congress, and has for the past several decades, is truly taxation without representat...
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If you don’t vote, it’s all your faultAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - People are finally paying attention to the problems our state and federal governments are dealing with today. Some say that those bad radical tea party people are behind...
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Farnham is in touch with constituentsAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - I want to recognize State Rep. Keith Farnham for doing the right thing and voting to cut his own pay. Too often legislators are involved with only themselves, removed fr...
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No curtain call for debt ceiling charadeAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - It is high time alert citizens close the curtain of falsely dichotomous political theater with respect to the fire alarm gimmick known as the federal “debt ceiling.” Bot...
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Put down your cell; watch for workersAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - Welcome to the construction season in a town near you. During the summer months bridges and roads are being repaired or replaced, the parkway grass and trees are getting...
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Who will save planet if not us?Aug 03, 2011 3:00 am - I am a Columbia College Chicago student and like many students my age I see solutions to the urgent climate crisis being pushed aside by our politicians and media in fav...
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Enough intransigence from tea partyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - Where did the tea party members of Congress ever get the notion that the citizens of this nation were willing to walk off an economic cliff to support their intransigent...
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Hemp, solar, wind won’t solve problemAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - It’s difficult to tell whether opinions recently expressed in Fence Post about climate change and energy are due to a lack of knowledge or bad logic. First, with respect...