Palatine Opinion
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D211 needs LeFevre back on the boardApr 03, 2013 5:00 am - I want to let you know that your failure to endorse Robert LeFevre for the District 211 school board is incorrect. My assumption is that your endorsements were made out ...
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Changing minds and words a bad mixMar 31, 2013 5:00 am - Columnist Donna Brazile is concerned with the developing changes in the Clinton family from 1992 to present (“The Clinton family’s evolution on gay marriage,” March 26)....
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GOP chair out of step with partyMar 31, 2013 5:00 am - Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady earlier this year spoke out in support of gay marriage. Chairman Brady should have been aware prior to stating his emotional opinion that...
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Local primaries make case for less democracyMar 31, 2013 5:00 am - Each week, we editor types contribute items for our Soapbox feature — pithy, quick-hit comments on the suburbs. Here’s an sample from Saturday’s Opinion page: $130 per v...
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The SoapboxMar 30, 2013 5:00 am - $130 per vote: That’s the cost of allowing 67 Aurora voters to winnow the field from five to two Ward 9 city council candidates in the February primary. The two survivor...
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Politics cause pain, not sequestrationMar 30, 2013 5:00 am - That’s right, President Obama’s sequestration, it was his idea, his plan, trying to outsmart the Republicans. Well guess what — it didn’t work. And now, for the first ti...
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Columnist Cohen rewriting historyMar 26, 2013 5:00 am - In his March 12 column on FDR, Richard Cohen states that “the war in Europe was not won by the United States, but more so by the Soviet Union.” I think he is guilty of r...
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Pensions ‘take from poor, give to rich’Mar 26, 2013 5:00 am - Jake Griffin’s column about the legal corruption at District 211 and other districts was enlightening. I had no idea that pensions were so ridiculously high in District ...
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Another traffic jam, courtesy of Cook Co.Mar 26, 2013 5:00 am - I would personally like to thank the Cook County Board president and the commissioners for causing more traffic issues on Lake Street in Bloomingdale (DuPage Co.) See, o...
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Spending decisions show lack of leadershipMar 26, 2013 5:00 am - The sequester has passed and the president has warned us about the thousands of teachers who will be let go, the long delays at the airports, the loss of government jobs...