Marengo Opinion
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Collect what state owed before cuttingDec 18, 2009 10:00 pm - I worked in credit and collections for 20 years, and we used to have a saying: "If you owe it, pay it!" I've often wondered why Illinois does such a lousy job of collect...
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Stories inspire us to stick necks outDec 18, 2009 10:00 pm - I'd like to commend the Daily Herald for its Dec. 2 edition, featuring not just one, but two articles on the front page offering subject matter other than violent crimes...
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Look at bad job market as opportunityDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - After 15 interviews and no offers, my graduation date imminent and the option for a fifth year and another major financial burden, it seemed that my worst nightmare woul...
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They get steak; we get doggy bagDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - I want to say I'm opposed to letting the government tell me how I'm going to be taken care of. I'm finally at the time of my life where I can retire, but things will be ...
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Althoff a whiz at chemistry, politicsDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Dear Sen. Althoff: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for speaking to my class, Chemistry 115, at MCC recently. Your discussion of links that exist among...
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Columnist gave Dobbs unfair rapDec 12, 2009 10:00 pm - I have watched Lou Dobbs for years and feel the accusation by Mr. Navarrette that Dobbs is a Latino-phobe is wrong. Dobbs always made a distinction between legal and ill...
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Legalize marijuana to ease sufferingDec 11, 2009 10:00 pm - From cancer victims to the person who lives with severe chronic pain, the words "pain and suffering " remind us of some distress that we lived with or through. Someone y...
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State plane abuse is irritatingDec 07, 2009 10:00 pm - The Nov. 23 Daily Herald article about the fleet of planes our "dedicated, cost saving" Springfield officials have to use at their whim really irritated us. It was just ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Kane Co. weathers tough timesDec 04, 2009 10:00 pm - When times get tough: It's been a rough road these last few months in Kane County government, in which the marriage of county board members and the county's elected depa...
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Amid tragedy, lessons in goodnessDec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - We know all too well that some of the news in our towns has been much too disturbing lately. There's the Streamwood mother who police say gunned her car and pinned a 17-...