Wheeling Opinion
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Give Abruscato chance to leadMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - After Greg Klatecki abruptly resigned the Wheeling village presidency in 2007 with half his term left, trustees were unable to pick a temporary replacement for the final...
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Use stimulus for people, not particlesMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Fermilab hopes to get stimulus package money and is scrambling to see the best way to use it. Their Tevatron collider (FY 2008 budget $158 million plus $62 million to su...
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D214 board should value the lone voiceMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - I shall vote for Ms. Pinney for the District 214 School Board when the time comes to vote. Let me tell you why. Some years ago, I was responsible for leading a group tha...
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Vote will prove you can fight city hallMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Anyone who grew up in the Depression in Chicago, as I did, will remember that saying, "You can't fight city hall." But we can and will by voting in April on the referend...
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Frisk: Overwhelmed by your generosityMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - I have been so overwhelmed by the cards, letters, e-mails, phone calls and school tributes since I retired after 50 years with the Daily Herald that I thought this might...
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Looks like knives are out for Pinney againMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - It's been some time since we've heard anything from or about Leslie. Thank heavens our school board members are finally speaking out again! Remember Leslie, she's the lo...
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Pinney getting a raw deal again this yearMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - It appears certain attitudes haven't changed much since 2005 on the District 214 school board. Back then you would have thought there was a catastrophe when Leslie Pinne...
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Do they think we're made of money?Mar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Elected officials and upper management of the Village of Wheeling seem to have forgotten that the country is in a recession. The village recently moved services to the n...
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Students shouldn't be political pawnsMar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Area schools run elections and mock elections with some regularity. When they do, all candidates, or those portraying them, typically get a chance to campaign, to presen...
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Festival cutbacks aren't wisest choiceMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just a few days ago in this space, we urged suburban residents to resist the temptation to let fear of this wretched economy get the best of us. Rather than hunkering d...