Schaumburg Opinion
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Hope from invigorated neighborhoodsFeb 22, 2011 12:00 am - The images are all too familiar in troubled times. Empty storefronts dominate the strip malls that were once symbols, if somewhat crassly so, of suburban economic vitali...
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Striking a balance in WisconsinFeb 21, 2011 12:00 am - Throngs gather around the center of government. Electrified with emotion. Chanting slogans. Demanding change. Refusing to leave. A scene from Cairo or Tunisia or Tripoli...
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Schaumburg: Think big, think very bigFeb 19, 2011 10:00 pm - Build it, they will come. Schaumburg could use a domed ballpark, an Astro Dome. We could lease it out on rain days to the Cubs or Sox, have concerts. Let's do something ...
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Health care law is about choicesFeb 17, 2011 11:00 pm - Health care law is about choices Enough! The theatrics on display by Republican representatives and senators ignore the value of the Affordable Care Act. The presid...
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Questions U-46 snow policyFeb 17, 2011 12:00 am - I don’t understand what the administration running School District U-46 was thinking. The City of Elgin sends out a phone blast to tell everyone to stay off the roads be...
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Change the state’s retirement planFeb 16, 2011 11:00 pm - If we want to understand the cost for government and public education, we must move every legislator, state employee, teacher, firefighter and police officer to a define...
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Schaumburg library already uses volunteersFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - The front page of the Feb. 5 Daily Herald contains a proposal by Mr. Hetzer to replace part-time Schaumburg Library staff with volunteers. Hetzer says surrounding taxin...
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Schaumburg snow removal plan let us downFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - Schaumburg's snow removal plan was a disappointment. On Wednesday, I was very ill and needed to see a doctor, but plows hadn't entered our neighborhood and the village k...
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Keep snow off of disabled parking spots in SchaumburgFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - It seems we forget about our disabled friends when it come to snow removal. People who plow parking lots push the snow into piles in the lots and it seems that the disab...
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Watching storm from his Schaumburg windowFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - It is Feb. 2 at 2 a.m., and like hundreds of thousands of people in Cook County I am looking at the weather out the window. My health isn't what it used to be and I drea...