Mount Prospect Opinion
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Get involved in budget debateJun 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Some experts and policymakers believe our country could do more to prevent problems before they occur. In particular, instead of postponing our response to the nation's ...
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Spill must spell major policy changeJun 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Someone please help clear up something for me. I keep hearing politicians talking about how the offshore drilling that is taking place in the Gulf is helping us become l...
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U of I trustees should be ashamedJun 26, 2010 11:00 pm - It just never stops. Our economy is below the basement and even our school trustees can't be trusted. Calling them trustees is an oxymoron. Our new graduates and those a...
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Illinois schools should teach EnglishJun 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Does it make sense that in a state that is $13 billion in debt and wants to raise property taxes, state sales taxes, and state income taxes that we have an education sys...
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BP not only ones to blame for oil spill disasterJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Shame, shame on BP. But they are not the only bad guys in this entire disaster. All the different oil companies, all of them, should have made plans in advance for a wor...
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We're all to blame for Gulf oil leak, not just BPJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Every time they show an oil-drenched pelican on the news I get an upset feeling inside me. Like so many others, I am frustrated and angered by the situation in the Gulf ...
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Racial prejudice in any way is always wrongJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In light of debate over illegal immigration, I'd like to highlight an idea that has, unfortunately, skewed the rhetoric. This notion originally conceived by social schol...
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Leaders must step up for U.S. immigration policiesJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - I am having a hard time trying to rationalize the actions of all the illegal immigrants protesting our nation's immigration policies. Marching with signs advocating "im...
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Something that isn't true is a lie, not untruths or overstatementsJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In an article published in the Daily Herald on Saturday, June 5 the writer referred to my Congressman Mark Kirk's lies as "Kirk's overstatements" and as "Kirk's untruths...
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Combat Speaker Mike Madigan by electing SugrueJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Illinois is in need of change. The best way to bring change to our state is to remove the longest serving leader Speaker of the House Mike Madigan. Speaker Madigan has ...