Rolling Meadows Opinion
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ID laws don’t deter minorities from votingApr 21, 2012 5:00 am - James Prescott’s ramblings about how the Republicans and the Tea Party are trying to disenfranchise the Democrat voting minorities overlooks the fact that 32 states requ...
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The SoapboxApr 21, 2012 5:00 am - Hey! What happened to that balmy, early spring weather we’ve come to love — and expect? Al fresco in Lombard: Lombard’s long-running challenge has been to revitalize its...
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Don’t put pension reform on my backApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - The recent comments by Gov. Quinn and Mayor Emanuel signal a renewed effort toward pension reform that would include shifting of a portion of pension costs for teachers ...
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Closing Spectrum a political, not business, decisionApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - A recent decision by Township Supervisor Mary Wroblewski and the board to close the Spectrum Teen Center by calling it a business decision confuses me. Some other recent...
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District 15 mess a shared responsibilityApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - Your story on the budget to date at District 15 outlines a dilemma facing most suburban school districts; i.e. we want good schools, but we can’t afford what we have tod...
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Editorial: The legacy of Stu Paddock, 10 years after his passingApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - Ask around the newsroom for recollections of Stu Paddock, and invariably the responses center on his little acts of kindness. Probably the most famous anecdote is the on...
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Bush unfairly got blame for gas pricesApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - By now every schoolchild in America knows the president has little or no influence on gas prices at the pump, thanks to the current president’s spin doctors and his syco...
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Police need support of our leadersApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - A few weekends ago in Chicago, 10 people were murdered, including a 6-year-old girl playing on her front stoop, and 41 others were shot and injured. The governor was in ...
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Regulations are what protect usApr 13, 2012 5:00 am - Reader Steve Quick (Fence Post, March 26) tells us in no uncertain terms that come November, the South will rise and smite the Yankee federal regulators who have wrecked...
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Restrict guns to inside homesApr 12, 2012 5:00 am - The Constitution was written by generally common-sense farmers and businessmen. The time was after the Revolutionary War when America was invaded by British, French and ...