Letters to the Editor
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Joyful ending to Chicago peace rallyNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - As the Oct. 27 peace rally concluded in Chicago's Federal Plaza, my husband and I headed back to our car, retracing the path we'd marched, having been surrounded by thou...
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Generosity toward PADS appreciatedNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - The Realtors of Baird & Warner, North Randall office in Carpentersville, wish to take this opportunity to thank the generous people of the Elgin area for their overwhelm...
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Parents must fulfill their parental rolesNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - Regarding the story last week about Illinois "dropout factories": While passages about culture and poverty and "one-size-fits-all" educational approaches all described ...
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Illinois cannot defy federal lawNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - I spent a week recently in New York, and during that time one of the hottest topics in the news was their governor, Eliott Spitzer, wanting to enact legislation that wou...
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Stop rushing the Christmas holidayNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - Some radio stations in Chicago have forgotten the spirit of Christmas. Hours after Halloween they play Christmas songs. At least Nordstrom respects the season by introdu...
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Extending patent harms consumersNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - I am so disgusted. I am a heart patient, as is my husband. We both take Lipitor. The patent on Lipitor expired long ago. Now I find the drug companies, in their greed, d...
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Story on teacher pay was inaccurateNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - We live in a society where "shock value" sells news so it is easy to understand why a newspaper continues to focus its articles on the negative aspects of public educati...
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Battling alarming staph infectionsNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - It is tragic that it has taken the startling increase in staph infections to focus the public consciousness so alarmingly. The American Medical Association announced tha...
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Can't Democrats do better than this?Nov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - Barack Hussein Obama is a youngster in a gown-up world; he has no experience that entitles him to be the president of the United States. His gaffes on foreign and social...
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Bush veto threat a sign of bad prioritiesNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - I write this in strenuous protest to the apparent priorities of the Bush administration in the field of domestic affairs, priorities that appear guided by the ideology t...