Kendall County Opinion
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U-46 insider supports D300 fightOct 19, 2011 5:00 am - As a parent with two kids in the U-46 school system, a two-time candidate for the U-46 board of education and a former vice chairman of the U-46 Citizens Advisory Counci...
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Why doesn’t Congress like Obamacare?Oct 19, 2011 5:00 am - If Obamacare is so good for everybody else, how come all the Congressmen don’t want it? They want to keep their own medical insurers. David Ronske Elmhurst ...
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GOP tax holiday is foolhardyOct 19, 2011 5:00 am - The latest idea by the GOP is to give multinational corporation a tax holiday so they can repatriate profits earned overseas like former President Bush got through Congr...
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Case can be made for a flat taxOct 18, 2011 5:00 am - There must be an answer to solving our federal budget mess by simply incorporating a flat tax. We have enormous sums of money being spent on how to fix our flat-lining e...
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If God’s so loving, then why the mess?Oct 18, 2011 5:00 am - A few thoughts for P.J. Bertrand (Pray for a stop to this downhill slide, Oct. 5) after picking my jaw up off the ground: He/she has fallen in the all too familiar trap ...
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Simplify government to limit disagreementOct 18, 2011 5:00 am - Our political system doesn’t work because it is too complicated. My ideas to simplify it follow: Merge the Republican Party and the Democratic Party into one party, the ...
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When do tax breaks trump education?Oct 18, 2011 5:00 am - I’m writing to give you a student’s perspective about the issue of the potential extension of Sears tax breaks. To many lawmakers, we are just a number — a statistic if ...
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Stop mining in forest preservesOct 18, 2011 5:00 am - How many people are aware that our public forest preserves aren’t safe from the mining industry? Illinois has a cozy and shocking arrangement with the gravel mining indu...
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Lawson’s ‘coffee’ was strictly businessOct 17, 2011 5:00 am - Regarding Roger Bianco’s letter speculating the “Coffee with the Assessor” is nothing more than campaign tactic for John Lawson, we were fortunate enough to host one of ...
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‘Promised land’ belongs to ChristiansOct 16, 2011 5:00 am - To answer an Oct. 6 Fence Post letter from Elizabeth Pearson of Elmhurst: The Palestinians have occupied Palestine for about 1,400 years. A large portion of the Jewish p...