South Elgin Opinion
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Let's solve our hunger challenge nowAug 08, 2011 12:00 am - It's easy to imagine how it starts. First, you're laid off. Then begins the sad scramble to apply for unemployment aid. Even with that, you face figuring out whether to ...
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Handicapped spots are for handicapped peopleAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - I’ve just come from the Huntley Post Office. There is one handicapped parking space in front of the post office, on the east side of Woodstock Street, facing north. A bl...
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Unpaid child support tells us who Walsh isAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - I just read Mrs. (U.S. Congressman) Joe Walsh’s December 2010 verified petition for $115,000 of unpaid child support. It is 55 pages, with exhibits. It says that Joe sti...
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Thanks for the Dow nosedive, tea partyAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - The people of the whole world held their collective breath while the tea party took our financial future hostage by manufacturing a crisis. In resolving the hysteria, Sp...
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One-term limits will right the shipAug 06, 2011 1:00 am - Voters have chosen to re-elect the politicians who are responsible for getting us into the worst crisis our nation has ever faced, with the support of most of the media ...
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Corn for fuel not the answerAug 06, 2011 1:00 am - I would like to add some comments to Mr. Campbell’s observations in Fence Post. By using corn for fuel we have pushed the cost of corn from a base of $2.40 per bushel to...
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Repeat after me, Rahm: SHI CAW GOAug 06, 2011 1:00 am - I am a native Chicagoan. Born and grew up on the West Side and educated in the city from grade school to my el train campus. Like many native Chicagoans, I moved out of ...
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The case for Obama as a RepublicanAug 06, 2011 1:00 am - There is an impostor in the White House who has been masquerading as a Democrat. Who? President Obama, who talks like a Democrat but acts like a Republican. By his decis...
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Faulty thinking of the leftAug 06, 2011 1:00 am - It’s seldom that one gets such a crystal clear view into the (non-) thinking of the left. One of those days came along, and boy is it a revelation. Vern Lee has proposed...
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Zombie strip is just grossAug 06, 2011 1:00 am - It is by no means clear what sort of sense of humor would enjoy the current Zombie story line in the Monty comic strip by Jim Meddick. On occasion, the satire and the pa...