Park Ridge Opinion
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Give our soldiers all tools they needFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - We sent our family members to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight. We then supported them with care packages of wipes, hard candies, socks, cookies; and we allowed their hands...
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A great way to meet constituentsFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - I would like to thank U.S. Rep. Bill Foster for bringing his Congress on Your Corner event to my district office recently and the many residents who stopped in to speak ...
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Primary is over; time to go GreenFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - The primary election is finally over. The Democratic and Republican parties and their candidates spent millions of dollars trying to convince you, the Illinois voters, t...
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Offshore oil could ease funding crisisFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - It would seem to me that if President Obama and our Congress were serious about job creation they would look at the Pentagon, the largest purchaser in the U.S., and not ...
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Give us whole truth about estate taxFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - After reading Long Grove Village President Maria Rodriquez's opinion piece about the estate tax, is it too much to ask for her to just be honest? The 55 percent rate on...
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Minority party got us into this messFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - In reading the opinion page, I ask where were the hawks against deficit spending when the Bush administration turned a $2 billion surplus into a $5 trillion deficit: tax...
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Let the market fix health care systemFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - I may not be the cheapest man in America, but I am certainly in the team picture. Some people even say that George Washington wears sunglasses when he comes out of my wa...
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February primary was an eye-openerFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - This last primary election has shown the people of Illinois that two changes need to be made. First, the primary date needs to be changed. There is no way the citizens o...
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Cost drives kids out of organized sportsFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - The article about the decline in youth baseball enrollment, given the state of the economy, is poorly timed and a bit socially irresponsible. Suburban kids are not enrol...
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End Bush tax cuts for the wealthyFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Why would we extend and continue the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy when is has be very clear that they have not helped most average Americans? Health costs have skyrocke...