Wheeling Opinion
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Report on PPA offered new insightFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - My comment is regarding Burt Constable’s article Jan. 29 on Primary Progressive Aphasia. My mother passed away at age 86 in 2008 due to kidney failure, six months after ...
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Avoid hysteria about religionFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Someone said to me that the possibility of the U.S. having its first non-Christian president is a sign of the apocalypse. This is the latest of numerous comments I have ...
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A mention of Kirk would’ve been niceFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - It certainly would have been a very thoughtful “leadership” quality if the president had taken a few seconds out of his “I did this” and “I’m going to do that” speech, c...
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Christians shouldn’t vote pro-choiceFeb 09, 2012 5:00 am - Is this an oxymoron? As a Christian, I’ve always wondered how a Christian could vote for any pro-choice political candidate, no matter what else that political candidate...
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Allow all Americans to be productiveFeb 09, 2012 5:00 am - Now that the Christmas and holiday season is over and our New Year’s resolutions are still good, we look toward the future. Over the past 40 to 50 years America has chan...
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Small minority getting big benefitsFeb 09, 2012 5:00 am - The state of Illinois has approximately 12.5 million men, women and children. Taxes that take away the hard-earned money from and for the support of these men, women and...
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No lawsuits on Hartwell’s watchFeb 09, 2012 4:00 am - It’s election time again, with local and national primaries scheduled in Illinois on March 20. The Circuit Court Clerk’s office in Kane County has been stuck in neutral ...
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Why did jobs exist in first place?Feb 08, 2012 5:00 am - A front-page article on Jan. 28 was titled “Elgin cuts 29 jobs.” The article also indicated that this was the third time in five years that positions have been eliminate...
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Get the truth out about GOPFeb 08, 2012 5:00 am - I am sick of hearing GOP lies and platitudes on corporate-owned media outlets formed by American Legislative Exchange Council and others. The American public must be mad...
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Brownfield deserves vote in 23rd SenateFeb 08, 2012 5:00 am - It goes without saying that our civic society is broken. Our politics, which defined as the work of the people, is anything but. We can begin to move our state back to s...