Palatine Opinion
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Point to remember on suburban turnoutFeb 09, 2008 10:00 pm - The early line on last week's voter turnout in Cook County is something to crow about: record voter registration of 1.35 million, record early voting of about 60,000 ba...
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Saturday Soapbox: When quantity mattersFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Seems the students at Elgin School District U-46's Gifford Street High School have found themselves on an unplanned diet. The district is now addressing complaints that ...
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Using the house the governor won'tFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I have a couple of ideas to raise some money for our cash-strapped state. Since the governor prefers to live in Chicago, I propose that the governor's mansion be renamed...
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Durbin doesn't deliver for IllinoisFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - No coal plant in Decatur. I would chalk this up to another failure of Sen. Dick Durbin to obtain a return of Federal tax dollars to the state of Illinois. We are ranked...
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It's time for U.S. to stop foreign aidFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Eighty years ago as a young lad, I remember being told in Sunday School that giving your pennies and nickels (dimes were scare then) to the poor people in Africa was the...
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Lake, Cook primary election endorsementsFeb 04, 2008 10:00 pm - This is a summary of the editorial board's primary recommendations. National Democrats President: Barack Obama U.S. House: 6th -- Jill Morgenthaler 8th - Melissa Bean 9...
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Thank you, dear Good SamaritansFeb 03, 2008 10:00 pm - To the editor: I am writing to send a note of thanks to the young lady, Cathy (I do not know her last name) and her friend who stopped to help me, when I was recently st...
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Police work has come a long way since Brown's murdersFeb 03, 2008 10:00 pm - It was a Saturday morning. There was snow on the ground. Chicagoans were awakened to some terrible news. Several people had been corralled into the back room of a subur...
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Liberals unfairly rip GOP tax cutsFeb 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Randi Scheurer's response to the Herald's endorsement of Melissa Bean included the following statement, "We also care about fair taxation. Nobody likes taxes. But somebo...
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Bean represents people's interestsFeb 02, 2008 10:00 pm - I am writing to you because it seems to me that many of the candidates in this primary election have forgotten the objectives of the office they wish to hold. The job o...