Westmont Opinion
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Reasons to celebrate national nurses weekMay 05, 2012 1:00 am - National Nurses Week (May 6-12) is celebrated annually to recognize the impact that nurses and nurse educators continue to make in the dynamic field of health care. When...
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Unethical to break pension promisesMay 05, 2012 1:00 am - How simple it is for Jan Shaw to solve the pension crisis. In her recent letter to the editor she indicates that the funding problem can be alleviated by passing a const...
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Time to fire everyone in DuPageMay 05, 2012 1:00 am - I have come to the conclusion, and I would like to think that DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin has also, that there are no county government employees having any ...
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Asking for fair and just campaignMay 05, 2012 1:00 am - I’ve subscribed to both Tammy Duckworth’s email updates as well as Joe Walsh’s email updates. I’m extremely interested in who represents me in the new 8th Congressional ...
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On Obama charity, business tax ratesMay 04, 2012 1:00 am - I just have to respond to two letters that were published on April 24 by Priscilla Weese and Mark Van Zeelt. Ms. Weese states that President Obama gave 1 percent of his ...
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Pension system critics research flawedMay 03, 2012 11:07 am - The Civic Federation and the Better Government Association, in their quest to reduce or destroy public pensions, have been selectively choosing facts to give a misleadin...
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Writer misled about Obama’s charityMay 03, 2012 1:00 am - Priscilla Weese made statements in an April 24 letter to the editor that conservatives are better at giving that are not true. Either she is terrible at math or she want...
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Romney gave more to church than nationMay 03, 2012 1:00 am - It’s always amusing when Priscilla Weese writes a letter to the editor. You know it will have a Republican and “Christian” bias, but you never know what fantastic assert...
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Stop mandatory pension contributionsMay 02, 2012 4:44 pm - There were several “worst” things that we the people let happen to our country. One of these was pension funds. They are totally un-American. We are giving a percentage ...
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Students getting raw deal on loansMay 02, 2012 4:10 pm - Predatory student loans are grossly unfair to the college youth of America. Bankruptcy laws are not offered to students with loan debts, but are offered to other debtor...