May 21, 2013
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Americans shouldn’t be penalized because Congress didn’t do its job
EDITOR: IRS refunds from 2012 to be late? Why should the bozos in Congress be able to dictate getting an income tax refund late because they didn’t get their work done? Does anyone in this co...
Jan 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time for U.S. to stop sending billions in aid to Afghanistan
EDITOR: Hamid Karzai comes to Washington to demand that the U.S. give him full control to spend the few billion dollars the U.S. sends Afghanistan each year and send more of it. He also wants mo...
Jan 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Women must speak out against idea of armed guards in schools
EDITOR: Common-sense gun sanity in our country begins with women, mothers and grandmothers standing up for the protection of our children. Women should use their voting power and not stand idly ...
Jan 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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State of Illinois failing to pay into retirement as promised
EDITOR: I worked for the state of Illinois and they are trying to mess with the pension system. When I was hired in 1984 the employees paid into our pension and the state was supposed to match w...
Jan 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Changing how a rifle looks does not change how it works
EDITOR: In regards to the letter by Mr. Matthews on Dec. 25, he will be glad to know that only military, a very few citizens who went through an FBI check and no law enforcement officers I know ...
Jan 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Members of Congress do not feel the pain of their mismanagement
EDITOR: I long maintained that one of the main problems with our elected Congress is that they do not feel the pain of their mismanagement that their constituents do. High gas prices? No prob...
Jan 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Right-to-work laws carving away at hard-earned benefits
EDITOR: George Will’s column blaming unions for Detroit’s demise and praising the 24 states for passing right-to-work laws is convincing in the eyes of the rich 2 percent who own 50 percent of o...
Jan 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Moving comics was simply way to spend less on paper
EDITOR: I have to admit, living in a town with your monopoly is instructive: This year I paid more for the paper and now there is less of it. I have been entertained to find that nobody who has ...
Jan 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Every school building should have armed security officers
EDITOR: On the morning program on MSNBC, “Morning Joe,” the host, Joe Scarborough, proclaimed, “We don’t need guns that spew forth 10-15-20-30 rounds per second.” I tend to agree with him except...
Jan 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reporter’s style a reminder of journalism’s good old days
EDITOR: I met one of your lovely reporters today. She was doing a story on the community kitchen and her name is Laurel. I just wanted to say how much she reminded me of what I imagined my mo...
Jan 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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