Letters to the Editor
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Cook County tax increase is absurdMar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Oh, how good it feels for the citizens of Cook County to be led around by their noses. After the Stroger-led county board voted that tax increase to 10.25 percent, ma...
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We should give up right to bear armsMar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I would like to address Mr. Waddington's letter entitled: "People, not guns, are the problem," March 4. His argument that "will never hold water" regarding taking away c...
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A better way to spend $40 millionMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - I hear that the governor and the president of NIU want to tear down Cole Hall and then build a new building and make it a memorial building to the students who were kill...
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NAFTA hurts, but not a complete lossMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Foma Harrop reports that NAFTA is "not a bad deal." That is an incomplete story. The fact is that U.S. workers continue to lose jobs to lower-cost labor nations includi...
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Guns are solution, not the problemMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - In the March 2 edition of the Herald, Ms. Bast states, "If anyone who feels citizens have the right to bear many arms can answer the questions posed in my previous lette...
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We should not allow wood smokeMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Please add our support and gratitude to Mr. Dubinski and the Breathe Healthy Air organization for their efforts to make the air we breathe free of wood smoke. Why do any...
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Obama has the vision to leadMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Barack Obama's opponents, both Democrat and Republican, are saying that he gives pretty speeches but delivers no solutions. Then they turn around and criticize his propo...
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Ethanol does not answer oil problemMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - We are spending millions of dollars to add ethanol to our gasoline. It is not reducing our consumption on foreign oil. The monetary value is very marginal and only adds ...
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It's time for reform in funding, taxesMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The time is now for property-education tax reform. This state has yet to make an effort in solving this problem. It is of importance to those on fixed incomes. I believe...
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Imagining what might happenMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Mr. Dulan asked us to imagine the carnage at NIU if 20 or 30 armed and frightened students had opened fire. I imagined one dead sniper and three or four students that m...