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Voice of the People, May. 23
Realistic cycling This is in response to "Impact of natural laws felt after daughter's bike crash; Mayor's proposal to improve road safety sensible, but cyclists are always vulnerable" (News, May 13). There is a reason why pedestrians and cars are...Tags: Laws, Shootings, Jim Edgar, Judges, Politics
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King Madigan's pension plan unconcstitutional
My wife and I were public school educators for a combined 67 years. We followed all the rules and paid the required pension deductions from every paycheck. Illinois legislators, meanwhile, decided against providing required contributions to the Teachers&...Tags: Michael Madigan, Lombard, Illinois Supreme Court, Pension and Welfare, Politics
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Confidence with professionalism
marieg@herald-mail.comThe men and women who arrive at a local car dealership are ready to shop. But they’re not interested in a set of wheels that will make them look good on the open highway. They’re more interested in looking good on the road to success....Tags: Services and Shopping, Personal Data Collection, Human Interest, Marketing, Politics
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Nation has changed since Second Amendment was adopted
A recent letter to the editor precisely stated the Second Amendment: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It made the point that the second part...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Wars and Interventions
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Truck driver shot while beating officer now charged
A 43-year-old truck driver who was shot by a Merrillville police officer he was beating in a Planned Parenthood parking lot this week has been charged. Craig Leonard Strand, of Portland, Ore., was charged Wednesday by the Lake County, Ind., prosecutor'...
Tags: Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control, Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics
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New life: Residential plan debuts for sagging industrial area
The first specific plans for Boca Raton's new style of development, which is supposed to add residents without adding traffic, will debut in front of the Planning and Zoning Board Thursday. "Boca Village" will be the first residential development to be...
Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Starbucks Corp., IBM, Politics
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Ben Carson's remarks 'denigrated' homosexuals [Letter]
I have to disagree with Diane Brown ("Only closed minds stifle opposing viewpoints, May 16) on both her key points about Ben Carson's remarks on marriage equality and the opposition to him giving the commencement speech at Johns Hopkins University this...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Personal Weapon Control, Johns Hopkins University, Gun Control, Politics
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IRS foul-up shows how bad laws breed good scandals
Much to my surprise, I find myself sympathizing with the Internal Revenue Service. Tenderness toward that agency isn't my default position. I'm a British expat living in the United States, with retirement savings locked up in Britain and other cross-...Tags: U.S. Elections, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Elections, Social Issues
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Chicago-area pension funding gap jumps to $32 billion: report
ReutersThe Chicago-based Civic Federation said Tuesday the funding gap for 10 Chicago-area public pension systems widened by 16.7 percent to $32 billion in fiscal 2011 from the year, warning of service cuts or tax hikes to bridge the gap. The civic watchdog...Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Rahm Emanuel, Local Government, Chicago Park District, Finance
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Council to consider mayor's proposed pension changes
With the city retirement system short hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, officials say they are likely to begin requiring municipal employees to contribute to their pensions. "Pretty much everyone is in agreement that it's fair,"...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Labor Legislation, Howard County, William Donald Schaefer, Carl Stokes
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Why is there a double standard?
Hang in there Councilman Sinanyan! Why should your comments made on the Internet years ago matter to the public when a conflict of interest by sitting council members went unchallenged at the voting booth in 2013? In 2009, council members Friedman,...Tags: Public Housing, Housing and Urban Planning, Standards, Science and Technology, Politics
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State Announces Plan to Assess Oil & Gas at Refuge
Channel 2 NewsAlaska is proposing a plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan was announced Monday by Gov. Sean Parnell and Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan. According to the announcement,...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Sean Parnell, Politics, Energy Resources
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