Pingree Grove Opinion
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Eugenics nothing new to health care in U.S.Aug 25, 2009 11:00 pm - There has been plenty of misinformation that has seeped into this health-care debate. Credit is due to conservatives for being master magicians. The sleight of hand has ...
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Fix what's broken; don't start overAug 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Government controlled health care? No! Take a step back and let's look at anything the government administers. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, USPS, etc., all going...
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Graduated income tax would be fairerAug 24, 2009 11:00 pm - In "Our View" on Aug. 14 you listed five issues that must be debated this campaign season. Two of them, Spending and Taxing, and The Children, our future, should have be...
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Thanks, Elgin for restoring senior rebateAug 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Thank you, Mayor Schock and Elgin City Council members, for restoring our Senior Citizen $200 Tax Rebate. It shows sound judgment on your part. We can appreciate that yo...
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Barrys' convictions something to celebrateAug 22, 2009 11:00 pm - While I commend John Barsanti for prosecuting Jill and Julie Barry, I disagree with his statement that their convictions are "nothing to celebrate." True, the guilty ver...
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No shows at county meet should be embarrassedAug 22, 2009 11:00 pm - So, let us taxpayers get this straight. There was a Kane County Board meeting and a meeting of importance and four out of seven committee members are "no shows." Board m...
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U of I admissions flap taking up too much inkAug 21, 2009 11:00 pm - I find all the attention given to the scandal at the University of Illinois regarding their admission policies a bit strange. With all the problems in Springfield, this ...
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Dispelling myths in health care debateAug 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Please support health care for all. I have a neighbor who cannot change jobs because of a daughter with a pre-existing brain tumor. I have another neighbor who just brok...
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Abolishing tollway authority only solutionAug 21, 2009 11:00 pm - In "Our View" Aug. 16, the Daily Herald, in the wake of another scandal at the Tollway Authority, called for reform at the tollway. In calling for reform the Herald wrot...
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Library's disposal of books shamefulAug 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot and loads of other books headed for the garbage graveyard? First trees, now books. Dundee Township had no sooner downed scores of trees "to sprea...