Will County Opinion
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Fear for world our kids will inheritJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Financial reform is a now a must for our country. My children have both been through bankruptcy. Credit cards and high interest loans were the cause. One has lost her ho...
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Thanks to Pheasant Ridge School classroom volunteer, Mrs. FordJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - I am a third-grade teacher at Pheasant Ridge School in Glendale Heights. As I think back about this past school year, I know how hard my students worked. Our days were p...
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Longmeadow bridge a boondoggleJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Kane County and local officials need to ask and answer one question as they push through the $117 million Longmeadow Tollway scheme in this time of economic distress. Wh...
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Cowlishaw legacy rich in historyJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - With the passing of Mary Lou Cowlishaw, I've been taking the time to think about the myriad ways in which she had been the best kind of friend Naper Settlement and the N...
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Props to Elgin Mayor for no car perksJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Thank you, Mayor Ed Schock! In the headline of last Sunday's Daily Herald all about the many mayors wasting our taxpayers' money with new expensive take home cars, car a...
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Slighted president, now you must payJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - President Obama dropped the ball in reprimanding Gen. Stanley McChrystal, missing a golden opportunity to show truly great leadership. After reading the Rolling Stone m...
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Better Wall Street oversight needed, protection for consumersJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - After the scare of an economic collapse a couple years ago, an overhaul of the oversight rules for Wall Street seems due. We haven't had real consumer protection on the ...
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We need strong regulation of the financial markets and bankingJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - The lack of government regulation helped to create the situation that led to the economic collapse of the fall of 2008 - the fallout from which we are still dealing with...
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Blaming racism is racism itself, cheapens civil discourseJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - In the 13th Century the plague was attributed to Jewish malevolence. In the 17th Century odd behavior in Salem, Mass., could lead to the capital charge of witchcraft. No...
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Accountability lacking in DuPage economic developmentJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - The last few months of press reports and information generated from citizen groups following DuPage County economic development has produced a fruitful civic exercise th...