Letters to the Editor
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The vote against gender pay equityAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Last week, a large group of 10th District men and women delivered a letter to Rep. Mark Kirk's district office expressing our dismay with his recent vote against pay equ...
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Hastert had success at earmarkingAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Fox News ran an interesting program on Congressional earmarks Aug. 2. The lead story was the sudden wealth of former Congressman Dennis Hastert, who went to Washington ...
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Reflections on church shootingAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the face of such tragedy, what can we do, what can't be done? We can't make our lives and our communities totally safe. We always will be vulnerable to those very fe...
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How 'green' are our local colleges?Aug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Oakton Community College in Des Plaines emphasizes, even stresses, the importance of being "green" and its own efforts in doing so. I applaud their efforts for this "gr...
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Obama must change his mind on warAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - I ponder, sometimes, whether Barack Obama is campaigning for War Criminal In Chief. On his tour of Afghanistan he told reporter Lara Logan that we must move a couple of...
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Vital to show how TIF affects taxesAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois Department of Revenue has taken an important step with its report about printing TIF district information on tax bills. Transparency is long overdue for Tax...
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Tennessee shootings reveal ironyAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - My heart and prayers go out to the congregation, families and victims at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church after the senseless attack and murders. There...
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The state has forced casinos' handsAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Your great series, "House advantage," prompted me to write. As a patron of the Grand Victoria Casino since it opened, I know the machines are much "tighter" over the la...
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Bernie Mac, a style that was classicAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - For those of us who knew him before "Ocean's Eleven" or as one of the infamous "Original Kings of Comedy," the Mac Man will be truly missed. Bernie Mac had a style of h...
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Our troops, not pols, are the heroesAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - We have gone through almost six years of war in the Middle East. We have lost 4,424 of our men and women who have given their lives for democracy, or should we say oil....