Schaumburg Opinion
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The people should vote on gay marriageJan 03, 2013 4:00 am - I really get tired of all this talk about gay marriage. We are all supposed to embrace it, but it is morally wrong. Marriage was created between a man and woman; that is...
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Congress needs to kick the spending habitDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - When my children were growing up I used to have to tell them often there was no money tree growing in our backyard. Yet our state and federal governments act like there ...
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Money in stocks doesn’t help economyDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - Obviously, my son (Fence Post, Dec. 2) and I have very different ideas about the political and economic policies that are needed to push this country back onto a positiv...
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Schools should be safe havens from abuseDec 19, 2012 4:00 am - No means no means no. No hazing, no bullying, no physical abuse, no sexual abuse in school or at school activities. Ever. Period. All kids from preschoolers through coll...
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U-46 should require high school uniformsDec 19, 2012 3:40 am - U-46 should require high school uniforms Elgin School District U-46 currently has elementary and middle schools using uniforms. At the high school level, students ...
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The SoapboxDec 15, 2012 4:00 am - Thank you, readers: At 90, Walt Meder is still contributing. The driving force behind the Daily Herald’s Hope for the Holidays campaign is just as pleased as we are at t...
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Editorial: Key lesson of scandals: Hazing is never acceptableDec 12, 2012 8:45 am - As a brief history of hazing examples published in Monday’s Daily Herald shows, incidents of hazing like those at Maine West and Hoffman Estates high schools are neither...
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Time to rethink parking at ECCDec 11, 2012 4:00 am - The parking lot at Elgin Community College needs to be improved. Students speed through it recklessly, traffic gets backed up because there are only a few exits, and stu...
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Be consistent in whom you supportDec 09, 2012 4:00 am - In his letter supporting homosexual practices (“It’s un-Christian to discriminate,” Nov. 30), Louis Guagenti argued that Mr. Jim Finnegan “discriminates against more cit...
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So many offices, candidates, so little timeDec 09, 2012 4:00 am - I've long held that the suburbs need a benevolent dictator or perhaps an elected king. I say that in jest, of course, but it's no laughing matter how many units of gover...