Northfield Opinion
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Difference between death, bloody nosesApr 07, 2012 5:00 am - Uncertainty surrounds the untimely death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on March 17, except for this: What separates this tragedy from a physical confrontation and one or...
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President less than upfront on pipelineApr 06, 2012 5:00 am - Mr. President, to call you a liar would be disrespectful, and therefore I won’t. However, I consider it disingenuous when you go to Oklahoma and claim to speed up the re...
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Voter ID would suppress minoritiesApr 06, 2012 5:00 am - It is a sad situation where the Republicans and their subparty Tea Party are engaged in a national policy of voter suppression under the guise of a nonexistent “voter fr...
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Some thank-yous for opinions well statedApr 06, 2012 5:00 am - Thanks for Robert Parker’s well-written letter about “How to keep it fair for the people” (Fence Post, March 27). I agree with all his points, and we the voters need to ...
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Court must reject health care lawApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - Concerning the current federal judicial review of the health care law: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the St...
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It’s the citizens who know bestApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - I am responding to the March 27 letter by Robert Parker. His ideas reflect the wisdom he has found after living 79 years on the planet. He outlined a seven-point plan to...
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Finally, some peace from the robocallsApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - The annoying phone calls finally stopped. They called all hours of the day, wanting you to vote for their candidate. You can’t tell them to stop calling because there is...
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Endorsements show paper’s true colorsApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - Once again your newspaper disappoints with regard to your most recent endorsements. How you can claim to be centrist while endorsing Jan Schakowsky and Tammy Duckworth g...
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Press, journalists on progressives’ sideApr 04, 2012 5:00 am - Where are all the alarmists? Oh yeah, they all went to Florida. Murder statistics click up every month in Chicago, but the professional alarmists need to get down to whe...
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Act quickly on insurance exchangesApr 04, 2012 5:00 am - The time is now for the General Assembly to develop a plan to implement the 2010 federal health care reform law in Illinois. Each state should implement its own plan. Il...