Letters to the Editor
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Only Republicans use stock marketJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Frank Sears of Buffalo Grove wrote a letter (published Tuesday) implying that only the devil himself would take Social Security money and invest it in the stock market. ...
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Gitmo prisoners are terroristsJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I have been reading about the abuse and torture at Gitmo and I don't understand how the media can blame the military for this. People, we are involved in a war! Not jus...
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Kirk needs to see health-care crisisJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - At a May 10 meeting of the Wheeling Township Republicans, my congressman, Mark Kirk, spoke about the health care crisis, Medicaid and the uninsured. Since his statemen...
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Rethink position on cemetery decorJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - I thank you, Amy Rubenacker, for putting my thoughts into words in your recent letter regarding Millburn Cemetery. My concern, as well as many others I'm sure, is Avon C...
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Keep shining light on animal abusersJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - It was solacing and encouraging to notice that the "Bartlett man indicted in dog abuse case" was the most read Daily Herald article on June 12. Seventy-four online reade...
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Futures act of 2000 drove up oil pricesJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Until Bush, U.S. energy futures were traded on regulated exchanges to prevent market manipulation. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 allowed traders to sp...
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Unemployment bill doesn't help needyJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently, the House voted for taxpayers to pay for up to nine months of unemployment benefits to a person if they held a job for only two weeks. Sounds crazy, doesn't it...
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O'Hare expansion should be scrappedJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - With ticket prices rising along with the cost of jet fuel, and airlines cutting flights, has it occurred to anyone that maybe O'Hare Airport does not need another runway...
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Bush foreign policy failed in many waysJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - If George W. Bush had visited Iraq and talked to Saddam Hussein, he might have agreed with United Nations inspectors who concluded "there were no weapons of mass destruc...
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Wright merely asks us to improve U.S.Jun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - For those folks who demonize Rev. Wright for his comments, without actually researching the context of his speech, I want to be sure you know what he was talking about a...