Letters to the Editor
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It's time to chop down the tax treeApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - It is time for the State of Illinois, Cook County and all taxing bodies to tighten their belts and stop raising taxes and fees. The taxpaying public has been conservin...
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State is real villain for high sales taxesApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - During March, I heard many people throughout the Chicago area complain about the budget that the Cook County Board passed because the budget increased the county sales t...
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Chance to make statement on warApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the past months, the Iraq War is increasingly being called the "forgotten war." On April 8, at the annual township meeting, residents of Downers Grove Township have...
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If the Democrats win in November…Apr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - It's pretty sad the way Obama and Clinton twisted McCain's comments about being in Iraq for 100 years. We've been in Germany and Japan over 50 years and nobody seems too...
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More opinion than fact in Isikoff storyApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Like all other mainstream media outlets, the Daily Herald has begun mixing news with opinion. On March 31, it included a story by Michael Isikoff of Newsweek. This is ...
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Taxes shouldn't be this hard to payApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's say you have recently purchased a new condominium unit in a large development and the county has not yet assigned individual tax parcel numbers to each unit. The e...
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Public employees pensions enviableApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm getting sick of all the whining over the pensions for people on the public payroll. I would love to have retired at 80 percent of my last paycheck. Instead, my "gen...
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Anti-smoking campaign praisedApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Kudos to Puneet Khan and the DuPage County Health Department for their efforts to educate students and the public at large about the dangers of smoking. When I was six y...
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Nation's woes fault of few rigging gameApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years and wrote one of the best articles on the woes of this country and those responsible. Guess who? They are a very small ...
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Thoughts on candidates, viewsApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - It is a curious collection of candidates which our political process has placed before us. On the Republican side we have John McCain, who voted against the marriage am...