Winfield Opinion
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Blame supply-side for Europe’s woesDec 16, 2011 4:00 am - In response to Roger Dauchy’s Dec. 3 letter identifying European socialism as a plague that is destroying Europe and threatening the U.S. through the Obama administratio...
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The message Roskam really is sendingDec 16, 2011 4:00 am - Our family received another one of Congressman Peter Roskam’s invitations to respond to his leadership. The glossy, full-color brochure was the second we received in a t...
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Distracted driving hardly an ‘epidemic’Dec 15, 2011 5:00 am - Epidemic? Seriously, an epidemic? As in “The epidemic of distracted driving” as stated in your “Tunnel Vision” article of Dec. 4. Epidemic, according to the Random House...
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Don’t blame Clinton for financial crisisDec 15, 2011 5:00 am - I am responding to Myron Dudek’s letter of Dec. 8, where Dudek implied that it was President Clinton and the Democratic Congress mostly to blame for the current financia...
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Two-party system not workingDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - It is apparent to most people in this country that the present two-party political system is no longer effective in dealing with the critical issues that we are facing. ...
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Blago sentence shows flaws in systemDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - I feel that since Rod Blagojevich’s guilt or innocence was decided by a jury, that his sentence should have also been decided by a jury. Why do we give one person the re...
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Great job by NIU’s Lorado Taft staffDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - It’s been two weeks since I had the opportunity to spend a weekend at the Lorado Taft Campus of Northern Illinois University. I want to publicly thank the staff for suc...
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Concerns about Nunu Sung plea dealDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - In following the custody case of Nunu Sung, I find it concerning that presiding Guardian ad Litem, Kathleen Anderson, is fighting the terms of a plea agreement by filing...
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Allow advertising in schoolsDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - Schools should permit product advertising to raise money for programs, thereby keeping citizens’ taxes low. Advertising should be permitted in public schools because it ...
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Not less government, better governmentDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - President Reagan had it mostly right: government is not the solution. What’s needed, however, is not less government but better government. Civil rights should not be ab...