Wheeling Opinion
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Lobbyist doesn’t belong on state payrollMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - A recent Fence post letter criticized a congressional candidate for hiring a former lobbyist. That’s nothing compared to our governor. How many people know that Terry Co...
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Tax relief should start at the pumpMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - It is imperative that the gasoline tax be suspended immediately. Cook County collects 6 cents per gallon, the state of Illinois collects 19 cents per gallon, and the fed...
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A second look needed at contraceptionMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - Mr. Nordlund’s statement on God’s command to multiply (Fence Post, March 6) is true in a symbolic sense, but let me remind him Genesis also says God made man in his own ...
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Groundrules broken on COD contract talksMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - Ground rules broken on COD contract talks President Breuder’s war of words in his campaign to deannex the College of DuPage from the village of Glen Ellyn has been ...
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Give equal time to Obama’s verbal gaffesMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - I read Richard Cohen’s March 13 op-ed column attacking Sarah Palin ... again. And again the liberal press attempting to show her “lack of knowledge” because of some verb...
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Threat to Israel is unacceptableMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - I am an 86-year-old World War II veteran, and I believe that Iran seeks to finish the “job” that Hitler began in the Holocaust by committing genocide of Jews. The only d...
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We all end up paying for itMar 23, 2012 5:40 am - Apart from constitutional and moral issues, Barack Obama’s edict that everyone be provided contraception and abortion and insurance companies will cover it is no differe...
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Why we’re losing the education battleMar 23, 2012 5:00 am - The March 4 article on the U-46 “grade-in” demonstrates several of the problems and the Elgin teachers union’s backward solution to them. An experienced kindergarten tea...
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There’s still place for Santorum’s viewsMar 23, 2012 5:00 am - With regard to the March 4 editorial (Our View — Primary 2012), I would like to take exception to the statement “Santorum (former Sen. Rick Santorum) would turn back the...
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Obama should take action on gas pricesMar 23, 2012 5:00 am - It is obvious that this administration either doesn’t have a clue what do about the escalating gas prices or just don’t have the political will to act. Since President O...