Palatine Opinion
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If you toss the rest, keep NolandAug 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Working people and the unemployed have become justifiably disgruntled with Illinois politicians right now and might stay home in November, or are being encouraged by som...
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Many teen drivers not mature enoughAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - When my sons told me the news that two boys they knew casually died in a car accident this weekend, I was saddened and concerned. When the report revealed that the teens...
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Doubting health chief's motivesAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - What's up with the 360-degree turnaround of Executive Director of Kane County Health Department Paul Kuehnert since Oct. 27, 2009? My understanding was that Kuehnert was...
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Bring home troops before more are lostAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I truly believe that if a poll were conducted asking how many American men and women have lost their lives in the Iraq war, most people wouldn't even be close in their a...
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Dist. 62: We've done our best to keep public informedAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - On Friday, Aug. 13, the Daily Herald editorialized about the impact of the recent strike by the Chicago Laborers District Council and Local 150 of the International Unio...
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Financial incentives could raise gradesAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Right now all the talk is about teachers, test scores, salary, tenure, union intervention and the students not learning. But what is education for? Is it not to improve ...
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Some questions for two DemocratsAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Dear Sen. Durbin and Congresswoman Bean: Did you know you $800-plus billions "stimulus" turned into a welfare program for bankrupt states and public unions? Did you kn...
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Wrong time to borrow $70 millionAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - If sales tax revenue rallies, and if property values head back up, and if the state pays what it owes, and if the economy expands, a plan by DuPage County Board Chairman...
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School bailout bad idea for taxpayersAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - The "Teacher funding on way" article on Aug. 11 left me dumbfounded and truly disgusted at our Congress. During these times, with a true unemployment rate of over 10 per...
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Marriage not an unalienable rightAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I would like to respond to Eugene Robinson's editorial exalting the work of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in finding California's Proposition 8, which sought to ban ...