Streamwood Opinion
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Right the wrongs that hurt post officeOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - My husband was a mail carrier for 32 years, retiring in 2000. He passed away June 27. He used to tell me every so often of the postal funds being raided for other branch...
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Is Walsh character or lacking character?Oct 04, 2011 12:00 am - Joe Walsh is a character? Now that Joe Walsh has announced his intentions to abandon his own district and run against the GOP incumbent Randy Hultgren, I can’t wait to s...
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Thinks ‘coffees’ are really campaign stopsSep 26, 2011 4:00 am - So Schaumburg Township Assessor Lawson announces that he is going to start a new program whereby people can host a “Coffee with the Assessor” under the guise of “educati...
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Embarrassed Walsh represents IllinoisSep 21, 2011 4:00 am - Joe Walsh is the epitome of how the rest of the country regards Illinois politicians — egotistic, disrespectful and grandiose. I would hope that an official elected by p...
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Joe Walsh: 'My constituents are my bosses'Sep 16, 2011 12:00 am - Earlier this week, the Daily Herald Editorial Board ran an editorial attacking me for not attending the president's recent address to Congress and for not listening. I h...
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Cable costs sending her back to basicsSep 15, 2011 5:00 am - I am getting upset with the cable companies. I’m not the only one with this problem. They are messing around with the free channels so that we’ll get cable. Promise a ce...
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Community college a valuable resourceSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - History has told us that as the economy sours, more and more people turn to their neighborhood community college to regroup, retrain and look for new careers. And that h...
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The SoapboxSep 10, 2011 5:00 am - Solemn weekend: We don’t fully understand the magic of some numbers, but this 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorism surely carries a solemnity not evident in previous a...
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Find solution in cuts to military spendingSep 10, 2011 5:00 am - One of the unfortunate consequences of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, was a knee-jerk response to authorize military action against an ill-defined enemy (“terrorists”). I...
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Economic facts tell the whole storySep 07, 2011 11:00 pm - I wish that everyone would present all of the facts. A recent letter to the editor claimed that there would be a 3.8 percent real estate tax on the sale of your home due...