Park Ridge Opinion
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Cigarette tax benefits go beyond moneyMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Cigarette smoking results in more than 16,000 Illinois deaths per year, with more than 2,000 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke. As Illinois considers its decisi...
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Legal immigrants should be outragedMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Burt Constable's column regarding stealing education struck a nerve. What is the difference between the theft of education, services and health care by illegal aliens th...
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Teacher unions must change their demandsMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - In the Daily Herald article "Education unions call for a tax increase" (May 14) Mr. Steve Preckwinkle of the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) was quoted as criticiz...
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Kudos to immigrant who became citizenMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to Peter Garcia for his letter in the May 19 Fence Post. He says exactly what many of us citizens think and feel about illegal immi...
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Claypool is best pick for Cook assessorMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Current Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Joseph Berrios is also chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. He is one of the persons who reviews your tax asses...
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Barack Obama has mixed up prioritiesMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - So President Obama believes Arizona's immigration law, which closely mirrors federal law, is misguided. Well, he can believe what he wants and so can I. Here is what I b...
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Leaders must follow U.S. ConstitutionMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Just imagine, a middle class family, living in a modest, middle-class home, being paid for by a hardworking, law-abiding citizen, in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood, ...
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A need for strong federal governmentMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - The current situation in the Gulf of Mexico is a good example of watching what you pray for because it might happen to you. The Confederate south since the beginning of ...
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Rand Paul, tea party lack substanceMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - After listening to the actual interviews given by Rand Paul (as opposed to the experts educated by listening to the 10 second sound bites on the news program of their ch...
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Drop out of Senate raceMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Richard Blumenthal is the Connecticut Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate next November. However, a series of false statements and lies about having served in Vietnam...