Mount Prospect Opinion
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Harper program shows high schools’ failingsFeb 27, 2013 4:00 am - The Harper College and feeder high school success touted in your Feb. 15 editorial raises more questions than it answers. Where are the changes to curriculum, teaching a...
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Overspending starts with salt trucksFeb 25, 2013 4:00 am - Why is it that a salt truck goes down the street, followed by three plows, the last two producing sparks on the now snowless street, to clear 2 inches of snow? The...
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Celebrate diversity among all humansFeb 22, 2013 4:00 am - Black History Month holds a special meaning for me. It not only defines equality for African-Americans, but it also universally welcomes cultural diversity. As American ...
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Sip of water doesn’t deserve criticismFeb 21, 2013 4:00 am - Regarding Sen. Marco Rubio’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. I find it distasteful that the mainstream media in conjunction with the Democratic...
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Whom are our elected leaders serving?Feb 16, 2013 4:00 am - I am sickened over the talk about gun control. Eliminating assault weapons has been argued extensively to the satisfaction of close to 90 percent of the people. Congress...
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‘Gifts’ to tollway need to stopFeb 15, 2013 4:00 am - ‘Gifts’ to tollway need to stop Well, it has finally become a reality. The bureaucrats have decided to give the Elgin/O’Hare Expressway to the toll authority. By wh...
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Editorial: Collaboration that adds up to student successFeb 15, 2013 4:00 am - “How will knowing how to solve algebraic equations help me get a job?” That’s a familiar question to many parents of teenagers (and to math teachers, no doubt), especial...
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Bike overpass not Elk Grove’s job to doFeb 14, 2013 4:00 am - Why is Elk Grove Village looking to spend our tax dollars to build a bicycle overpass at Route 53 and Higgins Road? This is under the sole jurisdiction and responsibilit...
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‘Checkout fee’ will hurt IllinoisFeb 13, 2013 4:00 am - Everyday commerce in Illinois as we know it today will soon be history. A settlement, announced back in July, happened when Visa, MasterCard and nine other major banks a...
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Senate unwilling to address spendingFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - Thanks for a needed and well-written wake up call to our do-nothing (or do-little) Senate (Our View, Jan. 28). The House regularly sends budgets to the Senate, but Sen. ...