Prospect Heights Opinion
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State's overreach on COD hurts community collegesOct 16, 2015 1:00 am - Forty years ago, I received an exceptional education at Harper College. Harper's small classes and dedicated, enthusiastic professors sparked my passion to learn and gav...
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Taxpayers can't keep up with schools' spendingOct 08, 2015 1:00 am - I've just observed from my home an extravagant fireworks display following a Friday night football game at Wheeling High School. I'm in my eighties. My kids have been o...
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Trump is playing it smartOct 04, 2015 1:00 am - Is anyone out there besides myself who is sick and tired of the mediocrity of the news media? Everyone wants Donald Trump to give specifics on his different programs and...
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Editorial: Much work needed to mend fences in District 23Sep 30, 2015 11:00 pm - Teachers and students have been back in class since Monday in Prospect Heights, where things are returning to normal. But can you just erase the past week and a half - f...
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Grandparents proud of their grandsonSep 28, 2015 5:00 am - Jacob Sweetow was one of 90 high school seniors to be selected this fall to attend a Princeton University Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium mid October. The weekend...
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Neither side realistic in teacher strikeSep 23, 2015 1:00 am - Between school district 23 blinking at union demands while the union stands pat, both sides appear to not mirror the state of today's economy. The same week the Fed kept...
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Prospect Heights' story began long before incorporationSep 21, 2015 5:00 am - Regarding Tom Quinlan's Aug. 23 article, "An hour in Prospect Heights," the article should have mentioned that Prospect Heights was formed by Smith & Dawson in 1938 as t...
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Texting cartoon was no laughing matterSep 19, 2015 1:00 am - I am very disappointed in the Daily Herald's choice to run the Moderately Confused cartoon in the Wednesday, Sept. 16, edition. Jeff Stahler's cartoons are some of my fa...
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Universal health care is the normAug 14, 2015 1:00 am - I would just like to inform all those (mostly Republican) neighbors of mine who are critical of Obamacare that the concept is not new. My Boston cousins have enjoyed it...
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County can keep improving without harmful sales taxJul 14, 2015 1:00 am - We've had this debate before, and my opinion hasn't changed since our last go-round under Todd Stroger with raising the sales tax on the hardworking taxpayers of Cook Co...