Volo Opinion
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Can't afford to cut career, tech fundingJan 02, 2010 10:00 pm - In the next decade, a large percentage of jobs in Illinois - 41 percent - will be at the "middle skill" level, requiring more education than a high school diploma but le...
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Ignore labels, hold them accountableJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - I have to wonder as I'm sitting watching the headlines, reading the newspaper and listening to talk radio: Does America have an adequate political system anymore? Do the...
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Couple's story brings hopesJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - It was encouraging to hear how David and Angela Johnson's lives have turned around. It turns out I work with David. I thought I recognized him from the picture. He is a ...
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Debate policy, but skip name-callingJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - In a recent edition of the Daily Herald, I read in amazement a letter to the editor "Obama much bigger threat than Osama." At first, I thought my bifocals needed an adju...
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Does Gore know that joke's on us?Jan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Al Gore is such a kidder. First, as vice president, he announced to the world that he invented the Internet! Now that was funny. This year, an English court has forbidd...
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More spending is not the solutionJan 01, 2010 10:00 pm - In yet another blatant display of ignorance, inexperience and arrogance, President Obama proudly proclaimed that our government would have to spend its way out of this r...
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Obama spews fantasy, not factsDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - On this auspicious occasion I hate to bring our government into any conversation; however, as I mentioned months ago, Obama will not stand still until he gets his (note ...
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A final amendment to health care billDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - I would like Congress to add one more page to the 2,000 pages in the health bill. It would read that as soon as the 900 billion in cost doubles, every senator and congre...
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Terrorists shouldn't be tried on U.S. soilDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - As an attorney with many years of trial experience, one of the tools to test witness' creditability is confronting them with prior inconsistent statements during a trial...
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Reject flawed Copenhagen TreatyDec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - I encourage the rejection of the Copenhagen Treaty. Its premise is flawed. It places burdens on the United States while allowing other industrial countries, like China a...