West Chicago Opinion
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Death penalty not effective, expensiveMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - The problem with capital punishment is not the morality of it, but its ineffectiveness. The argument that death penalty deters crime is based purely upon hypothetical mu...
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Candidate session: What you say here won't stay hereMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Actual excerpts of e-mail discussion among Daily Herald staffers. Names redacted to protect the guilty and to avoid getting ahead of the story. Editor 1: “As several of ...
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Handing all over to corporate interstsMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Most depressing is the news in Wisconsin and other states threating collective bargaining rights. State legislators years and years irresponsibly did not fund their shar...
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Maybe she should run as Lisa ByrnesMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - I saw in the Daily Herald that the RTA has hired Illinois House Leader Mike Madigan’s son-in law to the top lobbyist job. Is this the start of the “Stroger Rule’ of pol...
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Police, minority groups need to talkMar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - By The Daily Herald Editorial Board Just a few weeks ago, we took notice in this space of the ever-increasing diversity numbers in the suburbs as reported by the U.S. Ce...
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State workers should not be scapegoatsMar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, Martin Luther King said. Why is it an injustice to break the trust among individuals and the pension systems into w...
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No forest preserve swap for fairgroundsMar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - There have been numerous occasions during my 16-year tenure as president of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County when a public or private agency has turned to t...
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State won't borrow its way to prosperityFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Kudos to your editorial, “Pain, innovation must come first in Springfield.” The Senate Republicans have pledged that we will not allow Governor Quinn to borrow another $...
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Anger at unions is misdirectedFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Everyone is angry at the unions. The workers in unions get better pay and better benefits, and, somehow, that's the reason other workers are underpaid and overworked. Yo...
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Human services cuts easier on politiciansFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Tom Cross, Illinois House Minority Leader, was quoted as saying “There is no easy cut” when it comes to balancing the state budget. (“Services wait for ax to fall”, Dail...