Wheeling Opinion
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Illinois needs Kirk, a fiscal conservativeJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Mark Kirk is a fiscal conservative who was a co-sponsor of the Balanced Budget Amendment, voted against the trillion-dollar stimulus bill which has failed and only incre...
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Props to Elgin Mayor for no car perksJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Thank you, Mayor Ed Schock! In the headline of last Sunday's Daily Herald all about the many mayors wasting our taxpayers' money with new expensive take home cars, car a...
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Look at science, worldview scenarios through God's wordJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I can't quite understand Paul Whittington's statement that I inferred that "one cannot accept the observable facts and still be a Christian." My point was and is that th...
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Don't legislate from the bench, make changeJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Let me preface my comments by saying I don't own a gun and have never have. This isn't about that as much as the rule of law. Less than four months ago Justice Sotomayo...
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Politicians created teacher pension problemsJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I think the media has wrongly labeled "teachers" as receiving hefty, six-figure pensions. The recipients of these big pensions are superintendents and administrators, no...
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Mayor Daley fails citizens by backing gun banJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Unfortunately, a brave young man goes overseas to a theater of war twice only to come back to the dangerous streets of Chicago to be killed here. Statistically Chicago i...
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An energy venture worth pursuingJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - What do you get when you cross a school funding crisis with a clean-energy initiative? Officials with three suburban school districts hope the answer lies in a downstate...
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Brady will put Illinois on track, change status quoJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing in response to Jim Peterson's June 19 editorial "Quinn victory will put state on track". In Mr. Peterson's editorial he says that Governor Quinn is "a good ...
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Hold Obama to tougher standardsJul 06, 2010 11:00 pm - The president went on TV trying to explain why he's been doing almost nothing but golfing since the "worst disaster in our history," noting that since day one, he has be...
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War won't solve Afghanistan issueJul 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Over a year ago we learned of the additional commitment of troops to Afghanistan. Many of the reports suggested even more troops would be needed. A number of military of...