Letters to the Editor
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Voters get exactly what they vote forMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Why do people complain about paying higher taxes? You know the Democratic Party is for government handouts and you voted for them to run the state and Cook County. So th...
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Why does election cycle run so long?Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm not sure whose brilliant idea it was to extend the election cycle to a ridiculous point, but I strongly suspect it was the media, since they are mainly the ones to g...
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Stories on Obama belonged on Page 1Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Help me and others understand your logic when you chose to place the Obama articles on page 10 of your March 15 Daily Herald while you placed articles about a priest in ...
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The GOP's 'best' has created a messMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - In Marc Thompson's recent letter, he mockingly referred to Al Gore as "the best the Democrats could come up with" in 2000. Let's look at the facts. In 2000, more Americ...
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Don't raze Cole Hall for memorialMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Destroying the hall (at Northern Illinois University) would not bring back the precious lives that were taken. In my humble opinion, the memorial would serve only to rem...
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Concealed carry, at owner's expenseMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - People have made a great deal of noise about the fact 48 states allow citizens to carry weapons on their person, with proper credentialing. Illinois and Wisconsin are no...
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Leaders take state from bad to worseMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Since a statewide smoking ban began Jan. 1, revenue at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin has dropped nearly 20 percent while revenue has dropped about 17 percent at sta...
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Hastert departure was a disserviceMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Had former Speaker Dennis Hastert served his full term, none of the special election problems would exist. For whatever selfish or self-serving reasons he had for leavin...
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Bean should back global warming billMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently published scientific studies now indicate that if our world is to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures we are going to have to cease carbon emissions a...
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Forgot to mention he's a Democrat?Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - In your March 11 issue of the Daily Herald, the media bias again showed, when the Spitzer article was assigned to the second page. Of course, the Oberweis defeat was fr...