Park Ridge Opinion
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Target distracted driving among teensOct 31, 2011 5:00 am - Oct. 16-22 marked National Teen Safe Driving Week. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 5,474 people were killed on U.S. roadways and an estimated 448,000...
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Find ways to reward the generousOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Greed, in our world culture, affects and infects us both passively and actively. Greed is the primary cause of war, abortion, murder motivated by prejudice, and it is es...
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Most investors don’t get rich on stocksOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - This is in response to David Hrdlicka’s Sept. 28 letter concerning “wealthy people living off the fat of the land” when paying only 15 percent capital gains tax. Where d...
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How our schools excel while failing the examOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Our children’s schools are failing. More so than ever. That’s the message being conveyed if you look strictly at the data of the 2011 report card for all schools in Illi...
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Who’d have thought we’d have a dictator?Oct 30, 2011 5:00 am - In my 84 years, I never believed I would see a man with Barack Obama’s background elected president of the United States of America. What do we the people know about him...
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Rev up the coverage of auto racingOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - I’ve been a resident of Palatine close to 70 years. When I was young, my dad (who was a race car driver in his younger days) would take me to all the local and some not-...
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Obama jobs bill is misdirectedOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - It seems President Obama is looking to bypass Congress, which looks to wisely reject his latest jobs bill. Right now, as Obama said in an recent speech, Europe is on the...
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Cantor, tea party promote divisivenessOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - Membership in the tea party means being out of touch with reality. For instance, there’s Eric Cantor, the Republican tea party dandy from Virginia who recently used his ...
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Chicago soaking the suburbs unfairlyOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - The news services are reporting that Chicago Mayor Emanuel’s budget includes a proposed tax increase for water usage for the suburban municipalities that receive water f...
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Setting the record straight on economyOct 29, 2011 6:06 am - Richard Clark’s Oct. 19 letter blaming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the financial meltdown is pure, unmitigated nonsense. If Mr. Clark had taken the time to inform him...