Old Mill Creek Opinion
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Unions drive up cost of teacher pensionsMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Your recent Sunday editorial on Springfield's broken promise on pensions makes an important point, but if the key question is accountability, you gave the teacher's unio...
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The real cost of gun controlMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - After hearing the news that consideration was being given to National Guard troops being dispatched to the city of Chicago to quell violence, I wanted to take the opport...
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Union advice must be good, right?May 10, 2010 11:00 pm - I noticed an article in the Daily Herald with the caption "State poised to miss pension payments." Then I recalled two recent conversations with teachers from separate s...
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Limiting government is the only solutionMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - As a 50-plus year resident of Barrington Hills, I am forced to respectfully disagree with our current Mayor. (April 20 Fence Post) and small businessman. The health care...
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Beware of those who ignore rules of roadMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Well, the warm weather is here which means it's time to keep an eye out for those snappy bicyclists in their fabulous spandex outfits as they arrogantly fly through inte...
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Why I want to recall Trustee Lisa StoneMay 09, 2010 11:00 pm - After reading Trustee Lisa Stone's comments in the May 3 Daily Herald article on our recall rally, I must shed additional light on this story. Stone stated the people be...
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Pension series points finger at politiciansMay 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Regarding the Daily Herald's excellent, in-depth series on the public education financial situation in Illinois, it needs to be made very clear that we find ourselves in...
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Zion, not wind, best electricity sourceMay 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The Lake County Zoning Commissioners met on Monday, April 26, to consider rules governing the siting and operation of wind energy facilities in unincorporated areas of L...
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A lesson we must learn from a foolish tragedyMay 08, 2010 11:00 pm - As far as we can tell, Lora Hunt is not an evil woman. In fact, quite the contrary, she seems kind and caring, a nurse who has devoted herself to aiding the afflicted. I...
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Now is not time for new village hallMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing in regards to the article "Mundelein buying downtown parcel for future village hall" on April 2. This is outrageous after all the cuts the village is doing,...