Letters to the Editor
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Dangerous error in record-keepingFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - According to a Jan. 30 story in the Daily Herald, 110,000 AK-47s, 80,000 pistols, and half of the body armor and helmets issued to Iraqi troops were probably diverted to...
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A 'candle of hope' has finally emergedFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - If it had been possible for Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King to have had a child, that child's name would be Barack. As a 62-year- old white "liberal," I can cl...
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Direct deposit the best way to be safeFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Each month, nearly 250,000 senior citizens and people with disabilities in the Chicago area count on getting their Social Security or other federal benefit checks safe a...
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Arrest might have been predictedFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - It's a very sad day for Elgin and its taxpayers when a major drug ring is busted involving a city employee at a city funded facility by the FBI. While serving on the cit...
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Thomas wouldn't recognize the truthFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - I would like to know how your paper lets Cal Thomas write an article about his GOP buddies and fear mongers? Here is a guy who still has his head in the sand, like flip-...
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Testing brouhaha about 'special' dealsFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - On the front page recently, a headline read, "District willing to snub the law." It was about District 93 being against giving certain tests to kids still learning Engli...
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Enough of this long winter already!Feb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - I can't speak for others in the Chicago area, but I have had about all the global warming I can handle. James R. Schaefer Mount Prospect ...
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Stop cop profiling of young driversFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - I would like to comment on the practice of police profiling late-night young drivers. My son on two different occasions has been given what I consider profiling tickets ...
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Why is this woman free to buy ID again?Feb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Perhaps you read the story in the papers recently about a woman by the name of Marcelina Castenada who was arrested up at Fisher Nuts. It seems she paid $550 for a set ...
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Why are free people so wholly unhappy?Feb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - We are proving to the world and to ourselves that we are not a happy people in spite of having the opportunities to be, with protection under the Constitution for every ...