Palatine Opinion
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Church immorality is issue, not scienceFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Pope Benedict recently called for the prohibition of artificial insemination outside of the body, adding it to the growing list of scientific practices the church says "...
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Control guns to control violenceFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - With the NIU shooting, there have been four school shootings in the U.S. in just the past week. Yes, four. When are we as a civilized society going to do something to co...
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Afghanistan is an unwinnable warFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - I'd like to add to James Prescott's excellent recent Fencepost letter dealing with the stupidity of our war in Afghanistan where he pointed out that the Russians tried f...
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Hillary Clinton goes to schoolFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Only in America can we have this much fun. Hillary Clinton goes to a primary school in New York to talk about the world. After her talk, she offers a question time. One...
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Clemens case shows how 'whodunit' can supercharge a storyFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - As a high school journalism teacher many years ago, I tried to prepare students who cared little about current events and would never want to work for a newspaper to at ...
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Accountability key in Dist. 54, but so is fairnessFeb 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Accountability. Accountability for student learning. Accountability for providing a quality education within a balanced budget. These ideas are not new to School Distric...
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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...