Park Ridge Opinion
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Red-light cameras beg answersAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Recently revealed accident statistics showed Schaumburg never had any significant red light running problems. Also, the Meacham & Woodfield Red Light Camera (RLC) inters...
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Thanks, Coach Fed, from a 'Fedhead'Aug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1973 Greg Fedyski ("Fed") was my eighth-grade basketball coach at MacArthur Junior High School. At that time, if you wanted to play basketball for Fed, you had to run...
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U.S. Senators don't control police grantsAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - The "Saturday Soapbox" column implied that U.S. Senators could direct federal grant money under the COPS Hiring Program to specific communities. That's not the case. Whi...
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More street work, fewer sound wallsAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - I wonder how many potholes, streets and/or bridges could have been repaired with the money spent on sound walls adjacent to our expressways? I think maybe our priorities...
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Buffalo Grove officials upstandingAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - I was both dismayed and angered to read the stories in the Herald regarding the ongoing friction among members of the Buffalo Grove Village Board. I was Jeff Braiman's l...
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Sad day: Stealing from the needyAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - This letter is directed to the lady driving the cream-colored Cadillac Escalade that stole an item (Pretty Baby highchair) from the donation bin located in Elk Grove Vil...
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Herald shirks club sports in coverageAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In response to Marty Colgan of Palatine, who in a letter to Fencepost ("This is such a sad day," published July 3) lamented the fact that there were no high school sport...
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Limit swim lessons to one Palatine poolAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - I am writing to express my feelings about the schedules of Palatine's local park district pools. I feel the use of more than one pool for swimming lessons is unneeded. M...
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Bokor shouldn't negotiate contractAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In response to a Freedom of Information Act request that I made a couple of months ago, I was recently informed by District 15 that board member Rich Bokor would be the ...
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Clarifying views on religion and paradesAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - It seems like everyone who responded to my letter on "Religion and Parade Don't Mix" completely misunderstood it. Yes, of course, churches do a lot of good. Who could re...