Northfield Opinion
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Sep 09, 2010 1:00 am - Open mosque site to all religions How about this for a solution to the rights vs. sensitivity in building a mosque near the 9/11 site? The Muslims would donate the ...
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U-turn worse than right on redSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I was driving to work at Biesterfield Road and Route 53 in Elk Grove Village. I had the arrow to turn right heading east on Biesterfield. As I'm turning, some yahoo deci...
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Support our troops, fly the flagSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans took to flying their flags in support of those we lost that day and in support of our country's fight against terroris...
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Elgin's rehab goals not fiscally soundSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - After reading about Elgin's upcoming plans to spend $600,000 in federal grant money to rehab deteriorating, foreclosed properties, I question the reasonableness of the d...
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TV watchguards need supportSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - People are beginning to realize what has happened to television. There was a time when the entire family could sit down to watch TV without parents having to worry about...
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Where is the apology for 9/11?Sep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Approximately 61 percent of Americans oppose the New York mosque project, and yet the Muslims insist on wanting to build it near ground zero, where the loved ones of tho...
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Republicans moving in wrong directionSep 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It is not surprising that Republican pols - for Republican, read Big Business - want to phase out Social Security (and Medicare and unemployment compensation and minimum...
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Pollak will serve his constituentsSep 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Last summer I tried to attend the town hall meeting sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky at Niles West High School. It was "sold out." What I later learned was that the...
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Where will returning veterans find jobs?Sep 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It's time we start thinking of our troops coming home - what do we offer them? A parade, and what else? Not a job, something to support their family. As in many wars, p...
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Progress in study of college fundingSep 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It was encouraging last week to hear a near-universal consensus of the Higher Education Finance Study Commission in favor of the concept of performance-based funding - t...