Wheeling Opinion
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Stimulus opposition is political posturingJul 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Will political posturing hurt economic recovery? The July 13th Daily Herald featured a story stating that Republicans lined up on Sunday the 12th in opposition to a 2nd...
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Our health care is irrationalJul 25, 2009 11:00 pm - I'll be 65 in September, and I am getting signed up for Medicare and its drug component, Part D. I take seven prescription drugs. I shop for my drugs on the Internet and...
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Thank you for protecting our kidsJul 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Parents all over the country can feel safer knowing Big Tobacco will no longer be able to prey on children with despicable and manipulative marketing practices, thanks t...
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Nobody seems to be snickering nowJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - The chattering classes across the country could barely contain their snickering when George Bush talked about the axis of evil. Nobody is snickering now. The great orat...
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Saturday Soapbox: New Jersey, you make us look goodJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - More than 40 people in New Jersey, including three mayors and two state lawmakers, were arrested Thursday in the state's latest large corruption probe, an investigation ...
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Fight health care tunnel visionJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - I just read a recent letter from Jason G. Spoor, teacher union president for Palatine-Schaumburg School District 211 and am appalled and angered at his position on healt...
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New economy changes everythingJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Budget, recovery, honesty and integrity, balance, growth. They're now just words without faith. What we've seen disappear is not coming back to the way we knew it. Forg...
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Kids have right to excel, not get byJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - School District U-46 denied Kim Stover's request that they provide her son Andrew with a laptop with a special program to help him keep up with class assignments. Ms. St...
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Consider the source, then form opinionJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Today (July 18) we were treated to another of those predictable rants against Universal Health Care. This time a Mr. Nielsen was the standard-bearer. There are several t...
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Protests should use abortion picturesJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Why is it so offensive to parents that their children see real pictures of real human beings murdered when those same parents think nothing of letting their children of ...