St. Charles Opinion
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Look south for health care fixFeb 23, 2010 10:00 pm - Before passing a health bill that could cripple our country with further debt, I think our legislators should look south. I just visited Costa Rica where they have a soc...
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Local contractors aid wounded soldierFeb 22, 2010 10:00 pm - Just days after the massacre of unsuspecting soldiers and innocent civilians at Fort Hood, Texas, the National office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars notified me that on...
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Time to reconsider school mandatesFeb 22, 2010 10:00 pm - A recent outcry from educators has made "mandates" almost a dirty word. The truth is, some of the state and federal school requirements are worthwhile, and some are obtu...
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Million meal event rewarding experienceFeb 21, 2010 10:00 pm - Rick McNary started his Kansas-based international care organization named Numana eight years ago after meeting a 5-year-old Nicaraguan girl who was starving to death. S...
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Shame on Dist. 300 for teacher contractFeb 20, 2010 10:00 pm - Taxpayers within District 300 should be absolutely outraged that their administrators unbelievably ignored economic reality when they extended the teachers contract for ...
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GOP candidate good for the 14thFeb 20, 2010 10:00 pm - Grass-roots support and hard work on the part of Randy Hultgren brought him to a Feb. 2nd Republican primary win for the 14th Congressional District. The general ele...
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Saturday SoapboxFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - He's golden: Less-than-gracious Evgeni Plushenko dissed Evan Lysacek's gold-medal performance when he said, "Now it's not men's figure skating, now it's dancing."...
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Give our soldiers all tools they needFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - We sent our family members to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight. We then supported them with care packages of wipes, hard candies, socks, cookies; and we allowed their hands...
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A great way to meet constituentsFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - I would like to thank U.S. Rep. Bill Foster for bringing his Congress on Your Corner event to my district office recently and the many residents who stopped in to speak ...
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Primary is over; time to go GreenFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - The primary election is finally over. The Democratic and Republican parties and their candidates spent millions of dollars trying to convince you, the Illinois voters, t...