Oak Brook Opinion
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Time to curtail car perks is nowJun 27, 2010 11:00 pm - At home, when you receive a pay cut or a pink slip, the first thing you do is scrutinize the ongoing expenses in your life - the cable bill, the grocery bill, the cell p...
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Administrators need to share the burdenJun 26, 2010 11:00 pm - The headline in the June 22 Daily Herald should have read "Dist. 204 board freezes some salaries." At a time when the teachers of District 204 took a freeze on salaries ...
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Oil spill hysteria fault of the mediaJun 26, 2010 11:00 pm - I just returned from a rotation at the Joint Incident Command Center for fighting the spill in the Gulf. I and many other BP employees and retirees from this area, as we...
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Words everything when debating viewsJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In reference to Neil Jones' June 3 Fence Post, "Kagan radical views danger to marriage," there are several examples of language that will forever divide and put an end t...
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BP disaster spouts new terrorism worryJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Our never-ending demand for oil now has us operating oil well rigs far out into the ocean to tap into new sources of energy as land based sources become scarcer. BP seem...
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We shop at Walmart; what does that say?Jun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Recently I went to my administrative hearing at the Villa Park village hall. There were about 16 of us unlucky souls. There, behind the long desk, sat our hearing offic...
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Arizona significant to candidates hereJun 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Since Arizona passed S.B. 1070, a law that allows police officers to request immigration document from anyone who they suspect may be an undocumented alien, immigration ...
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Truman would have the answers on BPJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - I just don't understand how the BP oil spill continues to spit up thousands of gallons a day and yet when we go to the gas station for fill-ups, the gas is roughly 30 a ...
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Help WINGS to help neighbors againJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - We've had more than a rough week of weather, but perhaps the greatest damage was done a week ago when it appears lightning might have hit a transformer, causing a fire a...
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Use of red-light cameras should have a plan for revenues, follow throughJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Most people know that our nation, state and in most cases local towns are facing a paradox of colossal proportions: We're spending faster than we're earning. Population ...