Kane County Opinion
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True purpose of education missedSep 14, 2012 4:40 am - While District 303 Superintendent Don Schlomann is to be commended for rejecting the foolish obsession with testing students, it is sad that neither he nor the speakers ...
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Pension reform sans persecutionSep 14, 2012 4:40 am - Quinn’s and Cross’s pension reform plan persecutes current retired seniors by making them pay for the state’s mistakes. Madigan’s plan persecutes local taxpayers and no ...
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Editorial: We can still narrow school gender gapSep 14, 2012 4:27 am - It’s nice to think that we’ve come a long way, baby, since the turbulent 1960s and ‘70s, when the women’s liberation movement was burning at its brightest. In many ways ...
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Editorial: Emanuel must try harder with suburbsSep 13, 2012 7:37 am - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his city administration are a little busy this week dealing with a teacher’s strike, as we noted Wednesday. So, that could be the reason t...
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Becoming American still dream to manySep 13, 2012 4:40 am - Every Wednesday morning there is a citizenship test and swearing-in ceremony on one of the floors of my federal office building. On my train ride to the city recently, I...
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Why the income tax is untenableSep 13, 2012 4:40 am - From time to time the Supreme Court rules on a question of whether our income tax is constitutional. They always rule it as constitutional, no matter what argument is pr...
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Replace Sen. Durbin in 2016Sep 13, 2012 4:40 am - Why Dick Durbin doesn’t renounce his citizenship and move to a Latin American country is beyond me. He’s always using the office of the U.S. Senate to support illegal im...
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Workers’ comp a big state problemSep 13, 2012 4:21 am - Workers’ comp a big state problem Lately you’ve been hearing a lot about “in sourcing jobs back to Illinois” from our political leaders. It doesn’t take a political...
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Editorial: Blending realism, cooperation to tell teachers’ storySep 12, 2012 10:25 am - The problem with the Chicago Teachers Union strike isn’t entirely a matter of its timing, but its timing serves to emphasize a wealth of other issues that may have more ...
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St. Charles should leave McIlvaine aloneSep 12, 2012 4:40 am - I have been following the story of Cliff McIlvaine vs. the City of St. Charles. It’s an amazing saga of good versus evil. The difficulty is determining which is which. U...