Mount Prospect Opinion
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We shouldn't cover pension fund lossesApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - I believe there are several practices that contribute to the excessive pension benefits in the Illinois pension system. 1. The pension calculation is only based on the ...
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Stop bankers from gambling our moneyApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Hey, investor! Feel like a chump? You should. Thanks to the absence of meaningful regulatory oversight, you, along with me and the rest of the ordinary investing public ...
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Wasn't this a car theft?Apr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Recently Sen. Cullerton issued a statement where he says that he never interferes with the judicial process in relation to his son's various arrests. If that is true, ho...
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Title IX limits sports for boysApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - I was saddened though not surprised by the article by Ms. McGraw about the Obama administration's pledge to strengthen Title IX. I have no problems with girls and women...
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Thanks for stating the obvious, againApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Burt Constable's April 17 column is titled "Babies with 'bad' names can grow to be fine adults". (By 'bad' he means unusual in America.) It is difficult to understand ho...
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I'm reaching my (credit) limitApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - As a follow-up to my Fence Post letter (Jan. 10, Financial industry caused this collapse), I want to point out how our "friendly neighborhood banks" have gone to another...
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State can't teach us how to save moneyApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Saving accounts for every child? On April 22, the Daily Herald published an AP article reporting that Illinois financial officials want every child born in the state to ...
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Stop bill that limit patient choicesApr 26, 2010 11:00 pm - The Illinois Medical Society (physicians of Illinois) is attempting to take away a patient's right to choose where they receive physical therapy simply because it is in ...
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Shaking a baby is never the right moveApr 26, 2010 11:00 pm - April is Shaken Baby Awareness Month. Based on a North Carolina research project published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in August of 2003, approxim...
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Don't thwart financial reformApr 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Mitch McConnell and his gang of 41 Republican senators are threatening to filibuster to stop meaningful financial reform designed to give the SEC real power to regular W...