Park Ridge Opinion
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Politicians must keep their promisesMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Was I the only person offended by President Obama's response to Senator McCain's question during the health care meeting regarding the President's campaign promise? Inst...
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Illinois needs leaders with ethicsMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - What would it take to get people or a government worth voting for? Consider these points: We have the worst, citizen-unfriendly state constitution in the country. We hav...
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New bureaucracy won't fix systemMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Incredible! The president of the United States stands before a live audience and before a world-reaching press and announces there is "waste, inefficiency, and downright...
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New fairy tales in the bookstoreMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - The forthcoming memoirs by former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush will be history written by the Brothers Grimm. Tom Siebert Elgin ...
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Don't mine until study says it's OKMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - An open letter to the Kane County Forest Preserve Commission: Is the Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Dundee Township being considered as a possible gravel mining locat...
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Keep cameras out of Hoffman EstatesMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - You have just stopped for a red light. Maybe your bumper is over the white line, maybe you stopped then crept forward to see around the person next to you. A week later ...
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The complexities of limited governmentMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Here's the thing about limited government: until you explain how you intend to limit government, discussions about doing so are fruitless. It cracks me up when people sa...
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Dropping out a matter of choiceMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - President Obama claims there is a big problem with high school dropouts, saying that "only" 70 percent of students starting high school actually graduate. He also says t...
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Time to get serious on school fundingMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - By this time, no one can be too surprised to hear that another school district is facing painful staffing cuts in order to address a budget disaster. It's a theme that h...
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Obama on track toward job creationMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The approaches that the president has proposed in his plan make sense to allow the middle class to prosper. Making credit available to small businesses will not only all...