Wood Dale Opinion
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Join the call to ‘drill, drill, drill’Nov 08, 2011 4:00 am - A recent letter writer seemed to suggest that because we had an oil spill in the gulf, a leak in an underground pipe during a fracking process in Pennsylvania, and a sli...
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Partnership can save millions of dollarsNov 07, 2011 4:00 am - Due to concerns over rising juvenile crime in the 1990s, counties acted quickly to mitigate this public safety threat by constructing juvenile detention facilities to ho...
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Corporate greed day of reckoning at handNov 06, 2011 5:00 am - The occupation of Wall Street demonstrations are continuing to expand and spread throughout the country and beyond our national borders. They appear to have legs, strong...
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Does the right see no clues here?Nov 05, 2011 6:06 am - In response to Martin J. Uttich’s Nov. 2 Fence Post letter (Does the left see no clues here?) on our energy policy (more drilling), let’s see. Per one report on fracking...
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Do the math again on teacher pensionsNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - Fence Post contributor Al Palash (Oct. 27) told another contributor — who wrote about teacher pensions — to “do the math.” Palash should do his math again, but this time...
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Good call on debit card fee protestNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - To all of you who chose to respond by taking action against Bank of America’s debit card fee charges, I applaud each of you. You and you alone made a statement to the Am...
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Congress quite comfy with single digitsNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - The CBS News poll showing support for Congress has dropped to an abysmal 9 percent may dismay an electorate expecting solutions from that august body; but stirs not a qu...
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Why turn away prospective nurses?Nov 05, 2011 6:06 am - In speaking of the goal of most liberal arts colleges, a friend of mine used to say that they said, “If you can get a job when you graduate, we have failed you.” The Occ...
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The SoapboxNov 05, 2011 5:00 am - Leading by example: Avon Township residents watching their budgets got some tax help from Supervisor Sam Yingling and five political allies who recently presented a chec...
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What have you done for middle class?Nov 04, 2011 5:00 am - I (and I assume everyone in the 6th Congressional District) got a very attractive four color, oversized card in the mail with the cheerful headline “Illinois Seniors — S...