Prospect Heights Opinion
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Papers do fine job reporting the factsNov 02, 2013 5:00 am - I must respond to the Oct. 16 letter from Mr. Wayne Oras, who distrusts all media probably because he doesn’t agree with what the reporters report. True, at one time the...
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Collaboration helped bring about water ordinanceOct 31, 2013 5:00 am - Recently the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the Cook County Watershed Management Ordinance (WMO...
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No consistency in defunding of lawsOct 29, 2013 5:00 am - In 2006, President George W. Bush signed a “law” to build a double-layered fence on 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico. The Democrats didn’t like it and defunded t...
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Cohen’s arguments in column fall apartOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - Richard Cohen’s Oct. 2 column would be so fatuous as to provoke laughter if it weren’t so mendacious in its “facts.” Cohen says, “McCarthyism consisted of slippery truth...
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What’s fair in D23 is true for citizens, tooOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - As the District 23 teachers ask for a fair contract, don’t we also have to ask what’s a fair wage for the teachers; i.e. how does their current situation compare with th...
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The SoapboxOct 19, 2013 5:00 am - A special homecoming queen, Part 1: We can’t say enough about the seniors at Downers Grove North High School, especially Mary Doro, who nominated her friend Anne Wagner ...
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Obama can’t have it both ways on EgyptOct 19, 2013 5:00 am - Approximately two years ago, President Obama endorsed the Muslim Brotherhood shortly before the election in Egypt. Subsequently, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Br...
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The alluring, but unfinished, saga of Cook County budgetOct 17, 2013 5:00 am - The story of the 2014 Cook County budget, unveiled last week by county board President Toni Preckwinkle, sounds very alluring today but may not be entirely evident until...
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Preckwinkle committed to working with allOct 14, 2013 5:00 am - I was disappointed by the way the Daily Herald characterized my position — writing that my “efforts to reduce the county’s jail population and save taxpayers millions of...
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Turn off the lights when not in useOct 07, 2013 5:00 am - My wife and I take a walk most evenings and oftentimes go past Buffalo Grove High School. It makes us wonder if we are the only ones noticing the football field lights o...