Palatine Opinion
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Bravo to Palatine plan commissionJul 15, 2013 12:00 pm - Bravo to the Palatine Plan Commission. Last week it voted 7-1 to recommend approval of Catherine Alice Gardens, a proposed 33-unit supportive housing apartment building ...
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Supportive housing gives a hand upJul 15, 2013 12:00 pm - Supportive housing for people with disabilities should be a priority for the Northwest suburbs. As the parent of a young man living with mental illness for many years, I...
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Eric Drive site ideal for housing projectJul 15, 2013 12:00 pm - I believe that the proposed site for the Catherine Alice Gardens supportive housing development, at 345 Eric Drive, is the right location. The Palatine Plan Commission v...
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Editorial: Walker's death a clarion call for safetyJul 11, 2013 6:00 am - A summer stroll in a suburban park alongside a picturesque lake is not supposed to end the way it did for 74-year-old Barbara Pagano of Arlington Heights. But her life e...
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Protecting our liberty is elected officials’ dutyJul 09, 2013 5:00 am - Benjamin Franklin once said, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We are now seeing how right...
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Some ideas to fix our pension systemsJul 08, 2013 5:00 am - I agree with much of Rep. Tom Morrison’s letter of June 21. The pension system here in Illinois is the worst in the nation and needs a major overhaul. Apparently the pro...
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Palatine: Approve Gardens proposalJul 08, 2013 5:00 am - I have lived in Palatine for 35 years and love my community. I love being able to live independently and have neighbors that I care about and that care about me. I love ...
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Neighbors want to talk about cell towerJul 08, 2013 5:00 am - My neighbors and I have lived with a cell tower in the middle of our neighborhood, without complaint, for over 20 years. Palatine did not approve this tower. It was buil...
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Memory of the old drive-in on Route 53
Jul 08, 2013 5:00 am - The screen of the 53 Outdoor Theater was very visible from my make-shift bike repair shop. I had shoveled two feet of pigeon gunk out of the loft when we moved to the fa... -
Village should dump Turkish sister cityJul 08, 2013 5:00 am - Why is Schaumburg trying to placate Muslims by picking a city in Turkey as a sister city? The sister city program should consider cities with similar values. Why is Turk...