Mount Prospect Opinion
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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Editorial: Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotchaJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Permit us, please, to make this nonpartisan observation about the 8th District Congressional race between Rep. Joe Walsh of McHenry and Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estate...
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Let’s get that dog park underwayJul 02, 2012 5:15 am - So delighted with the great turnout last night at the Arlington Heights Park District meeting in support of a dog park. If the AHPD needs a model, check out Glenview’s b...
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Only park dist. can save these animalsJul 02, 2012 5:15 am - The Arlington Heights Park District has some dirty laundry. Countless lives of local wildlife has been lost because the park district refuses to employ common sense, or ...
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Lake Arlington path as dangerous as everJul 02, 2012 5:15 am - Here we go again. The first few days of summer are here and once again the speeding bikers and rollerbladers have taken over the path around Lake Arlington. These speed ...
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Put a Republican back in White HouseJul 01, 2012 5:00 am - I feel compelled to write this letter. Why? Because in my humble opinion Barack Obama is the poorest man ever elected president of the United States of America. His lack...
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Waterboarding not as bad as ‘kill list’Jun 28, 2012 5:00 am - During President Bush’s tenure several interrogation methods were used to obtain information from the hard-core terrorists. One method used as a last resort was the wate...
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Editorial: A new approach to train for manufacturing jobsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - Regular readers of our Opinion Page commentaries know that we long have been impressed by Harper College President Kenneth Ender’s energizing call for an integrated appr...
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A way to preempt graduation cheeringJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - The past several weeks have seen newspaper articles, letters to the editor and TV clips regarding behavior at graduation ceremonies. In some extreme cases, graduates wer...
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Editorial: Fireworks a tradition worth savingJun 19, 2012 5:00 am - There’s almost nothing that says Americana more than a Fourth of July fireworks show. As children, we couldn’t wait for the day we could stay up late, anticipating that ...