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Find a less political city attorney

Before the Belleville city election, Mayor Mark Eckert met with our editorial board and insisted that his Good Government Party was separate from the St. Clair County Democratic Party.

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    Allow letters only on the latest news

    l compelled to comment and offer the BND a suggestion for its letters section. First the comments:

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    Silence the Westboro Church

    The members of the Westboro Baptist Church are a bunch of the lowest form of humans. To openly go to funerals of fallen heros to degrade them is worse than disgusting. They do this because they can.

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    Lessons from Lindenwood

    Lindenwood University could give Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert and St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern lessons on how to manage money.

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    Quit stalling and comply with concealed carry

    Enough already. Now the bunch of loonies in Springfield and Chicago want to base concealed carry on whether a citizen is of "good moral character" (who knows what that means?) and has a "proper reason" to want to carry a concealed weapon. First, as to good moral character, how should we verify ...

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    Off the job but still collecting a paycheck

    In October an East St. Louis Police detective filed a complaint of racial profiling against the Fairview Heights Police Department for his 17-year-old son's traffic stop on Oct. 9. I am curious as to the final outcome of that complaint as this same detective now has been indicted along with a host...

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    Leonard Pitts Jr.: In Florida, timely injustice

    At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

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    What abortion says about us as a society

    A letter from Sindy Kubitschek regarding being kind to the environment and animals used a quote by Ghandi, "You can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its animals." She poses the question, "So, if we as a society treat our animals both wild and domesticated the way we do....what does...

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    Conspiracy theory

    President Bush lied! The British's "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction : The Assessment of the British Government," must mean they were part of a conspiracy. When Secretary of State Colin Powell went before the United Nations to make the case against Saddam Hussein, not one nation refuted our assessments...

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    Food drive helps fill pantries

    The Fairview Heights Area Food Pantry was once again a grateful recipient of food from the annual Postal Workers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on last Saturday. More than 4,000 items were received from the drive. Items were counted, shelved and crated by volunteers and friends from the pantry.

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