Roselle Opinion
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Dip your conscience into the Gulf watersJun 07, 2010 11:00 pm - The volcano of oil (it is not a spill) that will now erupt for several more months in the best case scenario, and may destroy forever, the ecosystem and economy of the G...
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Park St. Claire will be back, even betterJun 06, 2010 11:00 pm - In response to "Can we please stop the deforestation?" This supposed deforestation going on in Park St. Claire's Salt Creek is far from that. First and foremost, Salt Cr...
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The good and bad of public schoolsJun 06, 2010 11:00 pm - After another sleepless night over a horrible experience that happened to my youngest son at a public school with a bully, I wake up to read that Tracy Seaver says she c...
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Look at big picture in teacher pensionsJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Statements in the May 30 Fence Post letter by Al Palash cannot be left unanswered. How can anyone be statistically reliable when "below average" pension amounts are mere...
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Why so many taxing bodies?Jun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - As I write my check for this first semiannual tax payment, I see that there are 26 taxing bodies, of which 12 are for pension funds. Of these, 10 have more than doubled ...
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Here's why we love NavistarJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - OK, the truth is Navistar is a great company. Just a month ago I participated in the Walk For Babies fundraiser, and Navistar was the largest corporate sponsor. The oth...
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BP never cared about environmentJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Millions spent on research on how to drill deep in the ocean. Fifteen cents spent on what to do when things go wrong. BP never cared about the environment, and it's all...
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Winfield mailer was hardly 'anonymous'Jun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - On June 1, the Daily Herald ran a Fence Post letter from Rock Rocket: "Why an anonymous mailing in Winfield?" The fact is, it wasn't anonymous, and how anyone could mak...
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Average teacher pension is $40,000Jun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - This letter is in response to Al Palash, who questioned my use of the average teacher pension of $40,000 in the state of Illinois as "distorting the facts" in my origina...
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Soapbox: Actions speak louder than wordsJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Actions speak louder than words: Go ahead, Cook County commissioners, and express your outrage over Arizona's immigration law with your vote to boycott businesses from t...