Mount Prospect Opinion
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Headline could give misleading impressionJan 23, 2017 12:00 am - In response to a recent "Our View" editorial, "When the fake news label is fake, It was Trump, not CNN who disregarded the truth": Using this headline you give a specif...
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Traitor did not deserve pardonJan 23, 2017 12:00 am - It was a real sad day when President Obama pardoned Chelsea Manning. This is a president that let a traitor to the United States get a pardon because he says Chelsea suf...
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Editorial: State scrutiny of suburban-initiated 'Redefining Ready' could lead to fairer student assessmentJan 16, 2017 10:00 pm - Sometime this year, the Illinois State Board of Education will consider a policy change that could have an important - and positive - impact on every high school student...
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Action will lead to more Mideast violenceJan 01, 2017 12:00 am - Talk about sticking up for your friends. What the Obama administration did at the U.N. was no act of a friend. Looks like Obama is slapping not only Israel but Trump acr...
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Ticket-price logicDec 11, 2016 12:00 am - Ticket-price logic Now that the Cubs have announced that they are raising their ticket prices up to 31% for next season because they have just finished a great seas...
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Consider programs to encourage entrepreneursNov 22, 2016 12:00 am - I think creating new jobs in areas of the country that have suffered severe loss of industry is a good idea. If restoring manufacturing is feasible, that seems a good id...
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Again we use children as an excuseNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - Cook County Commissioner Tony Preckwinkle cast the decisive vote in favor of adding a tax of one cent per ounce on soft drink beverages sold within the county. These ine...
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Only herself to blameNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - Rejecting someone who should have been president? I said it all along that President Obama decided that the people should be the arbiter on Hillary's guilt or innocence....
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Fear for the futureNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - In keeping with the Harry Potter books, my wife & I decided to refer to the president-elect as "He Who is Not to be Named." We fear him. Tom McGovern Mount Prospect ...
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Toward a just countryNov 13, 2016 12:00 am - A great country must be honorable and just. I will increase my support of public radio, public TV and organizations that support individual freedoms and a level playing ...