Kane County Opinion
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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Saturday Soapbox: Thanks for thinking of themApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the lesser publicized aspects of John and Rita Canning's generous donation to Northwest Community Hospital is worth a closer look. Part of their $1 million contri...
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Don't create forest out of a single treeApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Regarding the incident involving Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski. I believe this isan overreaction as well as an opportunity to cause alarm in the midst...
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Get your TV converter couponsApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - If your television is not digital ready or connected to a cable or satellite system, it will not work after Feb. 17, 2009 when all TV broadcasting must be digital. The ...
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Such ignorant bliss just isn't for himApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In an April 3 letter, Matt Brennan stated, "In countless issues…we hear the same rhetoric when a Democrat wants to create legislation on a federal level. 'Let the commun...
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Saturday Soapbox: Old pols never leaveApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When longtime Kane County Board member Jan Carlson of Elburn stepped down early, resigning from the board this week after being defeated in the Republican primary, he le...
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Always taking more for failed programsApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I read with interest the comment in today's article saying that supporters of a bill to tax people with incomes over $250,000 at a higher rate would get voter support. ...
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Oberweis, Lincoln comparison bizarreApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I choked a bit on my coffee Sunday morning reading L. Dean Hufsey's letter equating Jim Oberweis' candidacies to Abraham Lincoln's. Lincoln's first run for state office...
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Why does U.S. treat churches differently?Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Cult religions are unacceptable to the citizens of the USA if they involve polygamy or residential compounds. However, if a religion has a pastor who spews hatred and r...