Northbrook Opinion
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Dist. 57 is reaping money mess it sowedAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - District 57 just called, purporting to be conducting a community survey regarding “the district’s financial situation. (Read: Trying to justify a referendum).” The quest...
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Break social stigma of mental illnessAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - Thank you for your Aug. 22 editorial “Should we really be laughing at this?” As a member and volunteer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of DuPage County, I ap...
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Nobody solving our flooding problemsAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - Over a week has passed since Lakeside Villas suffered through another solvable flooding problem. No indication from the elected officials at the village, Cook County, or...
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Lake Arlington path gets more dangerousAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - The path around Lake Arlington has become a dangerous obstacle course. No longer is it safe for families, young children, babies in strollers or seniors to simply walk a...
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Article strayed from Ramadan focusAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - Upon opening the Daily Herald Aug. 1, I was disheartened to see writer Madhu Krishnamurthy’s choice of language and focus in the interfaith piece, “Reflection on decade ...
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State officials should be business advocatesAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - It was very disappointing to read less than flattering comments by state Rep. Jack Franks about Sears Holdings Corp. in your newspaper recently. If his comments were lim...
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Don’t trust agencies that rate creditAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - According to the geniuses over at Standard & Poor’s, the likelihood of the U.S. to pay its debt obligations is now on par with Virginia Beach and Tulsa. We’re not quite ...
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‘Buy American’ and watch jobs growAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - I often attend town-hall meetings and community forums and witness the cries of “we need to create jobs!” There’s no question that factors related to taxes, incentives, ...
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Mistake to cut funds for Catholic CharitiesAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - Catholic Charities has been criticized as being “cold” in Fence Post letters for saying that they would not place children in homes with gay parents due to their religio...
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No purpose in advertising tollwaysAug 27, 2011 5:00 am - Wendy Abrams of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority declared, “ ... we worked hard to ensure that we were being as responsible as we could be with the finances we ...