Letters to the Editor
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Shut the door on this housing planOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - David Broder is a good, readable, and liberal wordsmith. His Oct. 18 column, "Putting keys to affordable homes…" promotes a new bill passed by the U.S. House. It seems m...
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So when will prohibition work?Oct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Seventy years after the federal government decided to make it a crime to grow or possess marijuana, its use is still prevalent, and the industry literally growing. The M...
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Health care debate has easy answerOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - There has been much political debate over the need a national healthcare plan that will cover and care for people residing in this great nation. I for one agree. I think...
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Get it together fast, Cook County boardOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: It is time to STOP government waste, and run the government as a corporation. Stick to a budget, and if there isn't enough money, simply trim the fat ...
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Christians have no corner on moralsOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Morality is a system of judging behavior by an objective standard of goodness or evil. To say that Christianity has a corner on this notion is to demonstrate the closed-...
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'Act of Grace' was graceful journalismOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - What a thought-provoking article you gave us in Sunday's Oct. 14 Fox Valley edition. "An Act of Grace," telling the stories of several families of murder victims was gre...
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Ordinary people should benefitOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - John Tanner, chief of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Section, asserted that elderly minorities die at an earlier age than whites, with one of the reasons being a...
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Taylor's story is a gift to readersOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald is my hero today. Your decision to run Taylor Radtke's story on the first page and keep it in front of the public each day, resulted in giving the girl ...
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Thanks for editorial sense on 'silence' lawOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Thank you for the Oct. 12 editorial, " 'Silence' law is simply unnecessary." This editorial contained the truth that Gov. Rod Blagojevich recognized, but which the legis...
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Dist. 204 should value public inputOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - The enrollment in the Indian Prairie Unit School District 204 is already 1,137 students below the district's projection used to promote the 2006 referendum to build a th...