Northbrook Opinion
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Give scared citizens chance to be heardSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The media, including radio, television, newspapers, and various others, including many sitting elected officials, have been trying to dismiss the comments of the people ...
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Read about Hubert Thompson before you vote to cut mental health careSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Read before you vote: Before voting to cut mental health care, we want state lawmakers to read about mentally ill Hubert Thompson's sentence in the murder of James Malo...
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The morass that is the federal governmentSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - On Aug. 22 I sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), concerning an issue with the right rearview ...
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Try helping rather than complainingSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Reading the article in the Herald entitled "Is 'green' home polluting neighborhood?" made me sad as I am such a booster of Habitat for Humanity that builds homes for peo...
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Illinois seems to want seniors off the roadSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Recently, I, a senior citizen leaning toward 91, who has driven nationwide for 51 years without an accident (thanks to other drivers), failed because I did not remember ...
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Health care reform, line by lineSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - What an opportunity the president has given Congress: he has offered to invite any Congressman to come to the White House and go over the health care bill "line by line....
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Greed is the cause of health care problemSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I have some thoughts regarding the problems with our health care. To me the basic cause of our problems is greed. First of all let's look at the hospitals. Most seem to ...
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Put a lid on the preachy rhetoricSep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Many holier-than-thou Christians feel the need to spread pompous pronouncements through the pages of the Daily Herald's letters page. Many of you raise all kinds of nois...
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Failure of repeal proves need to changeSep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - As a resident of Cook County, I was extremely disappointed to learn that the Cook County Board failed to repeal board President Todd Stroger's controversial sales tax in...
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HR 3200: Read it and you won't want itSep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - It took me a while, but I finally finished reading HR 3200 - the proposed health care legislation. It was a real eye-opener. Our current politicians supporting HR 3200 m...