Letters to the Editor
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Don't create forest out of a single treeApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Regarding the incident involving Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski. I believe this isan overreaction as well as an opportunity to cause alarm in the midst...
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Get your TV converter couponsApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - If your television is not digital ready or connected to a cable or satellite system, it will not work after Feb. 17, 2009 when all TV broadcasting must be digital. The ...
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The kaleidoscope of the Fence PostApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - For the past several years, scores of my letters to major national papers have been published, from New York to California, and yet none of these portray the kaleidoscop...
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Superdelegates are hardly democraticApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Democratic Party has devised a reliance on "super-delegates" to determine who will be their candidate for president. These super-delegates are NOT elected nor voted ...
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Such ignorant bliss just isn't for himApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In an April 3 letter, Matt Brennan stated, "In countless issues…we hear the same rhetoric when a Democrat wants to create legislation on a federal level. 'Let the commun...
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If we look, we can find a cure for warApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In my hometown of Lake Placid in the early '40s, I met Lowell Thomas, the famous radio broadcaster on the ski slopes. In 1946, I met William Shirer, author of "Berlin D...
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Always taking more for failed programsApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I read with interest the comment in today's article saying that supporters of a bill to tax people with incomes over $250,000 at a higher rate would get voter support. ...
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Oberweis shows he is not for peopleApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - In a recent column, (March 18), Dennis Hastert said Jim Oberweis "has to really remake himself in the public's eye." Maybe Mr. Oberweis, who ran and endorsed Congressio...
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Oberweis, Lincoln comparison bizarreApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I choked a bit on my coffee Sunday morning reading L. Dean Hufsey's letter equating Jim Oberweis' candidacies to Abraham Lincoln's. Lincoln's first run for state office...
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Important to read entire Adams quoteApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Theodore M. Utchen's letter quotes John Adams in order to denigrate religion: "Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out...