Letters to the Editor
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Elitists who drive up the price of gasJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - In June of 2008 the Bureau of Land Management issued a report that tries to explain why most of the onshore oil and gas reserves are "off limits" to being tapped. Though...
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State must fight domestic violenceJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network are membership organizations of non-profit agencies providing dir...
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Governor's brutal cuts are immoralJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Budgets are more than truncheons to wield political power. The money a budget represents becomes buildings, employees, programs and services to people in crisis and, wh...
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It's time to stop fighting in IraqJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - The Iraq war is a costly and unjust war that needs to end. We have been in a war in Iraq for over five years that has cost us over 4,000 lives and achieved nothing. Sin...
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Bush knows oil better than SteinJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - In your Tuesday "Opinion" page, Ed Stein's cartoon skewers President Bush once more with what I think are facts not in evidence. Specifically, he implies President Bush...
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Durbin ignores human natureJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - I am a proud American who minimizes pain. I also minimize the tax I owe. My behavior changes when tax rates rise. I don't know the human who does not share this surviv...
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No good reason for assault weaponsJul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Congressman Mark Kirk demonstrated recently what his supporters have known for years: He is an independent voice who makes his decisions based on results and what is rig...
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We need major health care reformJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - I've just finished looking at "Sicko" and this is the first time I can honestly say I'm ashamed of what we have become. Is money so important to us that human decency a...
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Echoes of 1952 presidential raceJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - In some respects, but on a lesser scale, the forthcoming presidential election will be a re-run of the 1952 election, which was Adlai Stevenson versus Dwight Eisenhower....
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Vote for candidates who support earthJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - After 15 minutes of fame as the first major global warming legislation introduced by the U.S. government, the Climate Security Act died in the Senate as expected. Despi...