Northfield Opinion
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‘Free speech zones’ coming to suburbs?Jun 25, 2011 3:00 am - Earlier this month, a small group of individuals engaged in their monthly peace demonstration at Dunton Park in Arlington Heights. For the first time in my memory, an of...
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Liberalism has failed in practiceJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - This was President Obama’s plan from the get go: cheat the workers, force the middle class into the same health care coverage as those 30 million who chose not have heal...
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Focus on jobs, not just the deficitJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - The Republicans have a plan to boost the U.S. economy, lower taxes to encourage investment and increase production while cutting government spending. This plan is called...
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Obama puts himself above the lawJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - In 2005, after The New York Times revealed then-President Bush’s illegal NSA spying program, I wrote a letter calling for Bush’s impeachment. The reason was simple: Bush...
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School reform bill is just a startJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - We have all read about the “big” school reforms signed into law by Gov Quinn. I just finished reading the 111-page SB 7 and remind the public that tenure one of the bigg...
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Put common sense back in fireams lawsJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - The right to carry arms is for self-protection. The Constitution was written by generally common-sense farmers and businessmen. The time was after the Revolutionary War ...
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Real reform needed for workers’ compJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - While House Bill 1698 was a start, it fell short of meaningful workers’ comp reform that we need to ease the burden on employers and make Illinois more attractive to bus...
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Peace can be achieved in Middle EastJun 22, 2011 9:00 pm - Perhaps by now the people in the Arab countries might be starting to realize that it is their leaders and not Israel who have been their enemies all these many years. Th...
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Cut deficit but keep food on the tableJun 22, 2011 9:00 pm - It is easy enough to say that the government needs to balance the federal budget, but selecting the programs that get cut is proving to be very controversial. Every spec...
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Is city ownership better — or not?Jun 22, 2011 9:00 pm - Chicago’s current mayor wants city ownership of its casino. However, the previous mayor sold the city’s parking meter franchise and the Skyway and tried to privatize Mid...