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Updated: April 18, 2012 1:52AM

Route 45 speeders

Hats off to the state of Illinois for the widening of Route 45 in Wildwood! Now when is someone going to enforce the posted speed limit of 35 mph so the people that live there can get their mail without fearing for their life?

Car wash conspiracy

The people that are making all the money for all the salt the county is putting down on the road are the ones that own the car washes. There’s not a lot of snow to melt, but there are a lot of cars that need to be washed.

Extreme conservatism

Here is what political and cultural conservatism have given America: 200 years of slavery; limited voting rights until the 19th Amendment was passed; murderous wars against the native Indians; 12-hour work days, six days a week and thousands of industrial accidents with minimal compensation; vigilante violence inflicted against labor union members and their supporters; numerous unnecessary wars including the Spanish-American War, World War I, Vietnam, Iraq and 10 years in Afghanistan. And let’s not forget air pollution and the degradation of the environment. A few more years of extreme conservatism and America will be finished as nation

It’s all fluff

To all you know-it-alls. If you would really look at the District 60 contract, you would realize that the 4 percent “raise” is all fluff. The teachers are making less money than if they had been given their years of service on the teachers’ pay schedule due to the two-year pay freeze.

A sacrilege

About your editorial cartoon on Feb. 14. While I’m glad it pointed out that President Obama is forcing free birth control, I strongly object to its comparing Obama distributing condoms to a priest distributing the Holy Eucharist which Catholics believe is the body of Christ. I consider this a sacrilege to draw something like that.

A pet peeve

Why do so many companies send their bills with no identification of their company on their return envelope? When I write out my checks, my pile of bills includes several return envelopes, but I don’t know which is which. A small detail if you’re highly organized, which I am not.

School bus traffic

In response to the person that wrote into the TOTC regarding the Wadsworth traffic and what it was going to be like once the new school opens up on Wadsworth Road, just east of Delany Road. Can you imagine what it’s going to be like when all those school buses have to stop at the railroad tracks, traveling east and west and opening their doors to look both ways one after another? There are no homes out there where the majority of children that are going to the school. They’re going to be bused in. You might as well give up on Wadsworth Road once that school opens up.

Mystery solved

There is no mystery about why Terry Link is pushing for Park City as the casino site. He is a 20-year friend with the casino developer for that site who will get 50 percent of any gaming tax revenues due Park City from the casino during its first 20 years of operation, on top of his share of whatever profits he’d make from operating the casino. This friend was also generous enough to Terry to donate $5,000 to Susan Link’s bid for alderman in Waukegan. There is no mystery at all. The only mystery is why Gov. Quinn would even consider the Park City deal — something he has said he doesn’t like.