Kendall County Opinion
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Health care must be available to allApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - As a recent Medicare recipient, I want to thank Rep. Bill Foster for supporting the health care legislation. I volunteer regularly in Elgin because I feel that for the b...
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Why are we firing the teachers?Apr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - I am flabbergasted by the approach of firing all the teachers in a school to improve student performance. In the corporate world, the equivalent would be when a company ...
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Why arts are an essential skillApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - The arts are proven to help close the achievement gap. The collection of research described in Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Devel...
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'No-cussing zone' for White House?Apr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Does the current administration in Washington hold the record for profanity proneness? The media had to delete an adjective from Vice President Biden's greeting of Presi...
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Civilization costly but makes us greatApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Older adults enjoy receiving the benefits of Social Security and Medicare. It is oddly inexplicable that the same population could logically take issue with these same s...
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Preachiness is not becoming, BurtApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Mr. Constable, thank you for reminding us how enlightened you and your ilk are. Anger is ugly. You are right to scold. How heartening that you would never succumb to it....
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Hire teachers to do water group's workApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Fire the DuPage Water Commission now. How much longer must the taxpayers of DuPage put up with this inept management? No severance, no benefits, gone. They have proven ...
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Merit pay for state lawmakers?Apr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate compensation packages for the state's "part time employees" - better known as the Illinois legislature. Perhaps, given their sterling p...
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Careful what you wish forApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Frankly, I have no idea whether the just-passed bill on health care reform is a good one or bad one. It seems to have a mix of worthwhile and awful parts to it. However,...
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Let world know how reforms are workingApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - My father was a physician in a small, upstate New York town; he became more and more disillusioned over the years I was in our family home with constraints on his practi...