Medinah Opinion
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Out-of-control teacher pensionsMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - The recent comments in the Fence Post by Don Young are all over the map and distort the facts. You will find that proponents such as Mr. Young will use "averages" as muc...
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Oil spill relegated to back pagesMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Even before the gushing oil flow that began April 20 is stopped, newspapers are already assigning coverage of the disaster to their back pages. Perhaps they conclude th...
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Self-centered foes thwarted NavistarMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - It is a mixed blessing to live in a country where great efforts are made to protect honest people from the misuse of power, only to realize that those protections can th...
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Don't have to agree with Palin book parodyMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - So Sarah Palin stumbled on some questions about foreign affairs. How many citizens outside of government are up to snuff on all that transpires in our world? I wonder ho...
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No outrage at Pagano's vacation?May 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Yes, we are all rightfully upset that Metra Director Phil Pagano misused his position to help himself to large sums of money. But where is the outrage at his 11 weeks of...
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Mexican drug war: case for legalization?May 28, 2010 11:00 pm - President Obama hosted a state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderon. High on their agenda is a Bush-era program to fund Mexico's "war on drugs." More than $1.4 b...
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SPS deserves credit for local effortsMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Recently a suicide occurred in Batavia. Suicide Prevention Services, (SPS) an agency based there, responded immediately with massive support in a variety of ways, to the...
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West indictment a test of legal systemMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities), aptly describes the on going investigation and now indictment of Kane Coun...
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Roskam hypocracy on education bill?May 27, 2010 11:00 pm - I was distressed when I recently saw a picture of DuPage County educational leaders along with U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam discussing the impact of the American Recovery and ...
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Russians thwart suburban sweep in reality TVMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Personally, I blame the Russians. Had they not sent us Anna Trebunskaya, she wouldn't have had that argument with Evan on how to approach the freestyle, and they wouldn'...