Opinion Stories from February 28, 2011 (Change date)
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Numbers tell value of health care billMar 01, 2011 5:48 pm - I am writing to express my opposition to attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. There are telling statistics about health care reform: 타 32 million — the number of...
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Beware deed scam this time of yearMar 01, 2011 5:48 pm - They’re back! Every year around this time, the Lake County Recorder’s Office is flooded with phone calls inquiring about a letter they received in the mail regarding the...
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Human services cuts easier on politiciansMar 02, 2011 9:31 am - Tom Cross, Illinois House Minority Leader, was quoted as saying “There is no easy cut” when it comes to balancing the state budget. (“Services wait for ax to fall”, Dail...
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The government’s price on our headsMar 01, 2011 8:51 am - Back in the American Wild West, federal and state governments often put a price on the heads of infamous outlaws like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Sam Bass, Belle Star an...
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A left wing in need of an updateMar 01, 2011 10:17 am - Though I deem myself a sort-of liberal, I don’t closely read the left-wing magazine The Nation. Its views don’t budge for decades at a time, so one can get by just c...
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Anger at unions is misdirectedMar 02, 2011 9:31 am - Everyone is angry at the unions. The workers in unions get better pay and better benefits, and, somehow, that's the reason other workers are underpaid and overworked. Yo...
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Robbing Peter to pay for Paul’s projectsMar 01, 2011 6:55 am - Whoopee, hurrah, yeah, right on. Finally a column about the immorality of what our government and our representatives are so proud of. Froma Harrop hit it right on the h...
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State won't borrow its way to prosperityMar 02, 2011 9:32 am - Kudos to your editorial, “Pain, innovation must come first in Springfield.” The Senate Republicans have pledged that we will not allow Governor Quinn to borrow another $...
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Sunshine a major part of democracyMar 01, 2011 5:47 pm - By The Daily Herald Editorial Board The 5th Dimension’s “Let the Sunshine In” may have been about love and peace but, really, sunshine transcends those noble ideals and ...
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Too few understand health care lawMar 01, 2011 8:51 am - In response to Karen Storino’s Feb. 15 comments regarding her two recent college graduate grandsons who, if “. . . not for the new health care law that just passed would...
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