Letters to the Editor
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Health coverage should expandSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Congress recently voted to expand SCHIP and make affordable health insurance available to millions more kids while also strengthening Medicare. In response, alarmists ha...
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Shopping at 2 a.m. just might be bestSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - My wife and I are retired and we'll be darned if we are going to let Penny Novy (Fence Post Sept. 6, "Let's Try Shopping in Logical Shifts") tell us when we can and when...
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Missing the point on health careSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Reading the Aug. 15 letters to the editor, I had to smile about a response from James P. Jones of Wheaton to my letter a week earlier. The smile came from reading a typi...
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No, the surge is not actually workingSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Gen. David Petraeus has now joined the ranks of the venal George Bush and Dick Cheney. After many accolades about this pillar of straight-shooting integrity, we now find...
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Column depicted ComEd unfairlySep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Column depicted ComEd unfairly While I read with interest Chuck Goudie's biting, tongue-in-cheek article on ComEd in the Sept. 3 Daily Herald, I felt it presented a very...
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Sans oath, Petraeus report is suspectSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - If Gen. David Petraeus were under oath his report may have meant something. As it stands it should mean nothing to decision making relative to this occupation. Colin Pow...
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America would fight force-fed IslamSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Osama bin Laden has invited the United States to avoid death at the hands of his followers by converting to Islam. That's an interesting concept. Let's explore it for a ...
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Keep creationism out of science classSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - After reading the letter by Lisa Szatkowski (Sept. 5, Fence Post), a forceful refutation of her thesis is in order. I'm not quite sure why Ms. Szatkowski continues to ad...
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Misplaced nostalgia for language modelSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - In the Hidalgo County model that Mr. Reyes looks fondly back on ("Are Spanish-speaking students 'coddled,' " Daily Herald, Sept. 2), limited English proficient (LEP) st...
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Vegan teacher's action out of lineSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Amazing! I'm referring to the incident with Dave Warwak, an art teacher, who was trying to teach and impose his vegan lifestyle on Fox River Grove Middle School students...