Opinion Stories from August 13, 2015 (Change date)
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Keep close controls on government officials' spendingAug 13, 2015 11:13 am - Who ate the beef tenderloin dinner, what happened to the six holiday throws and which staffers were thanked with a party at Saluto's Pizza and Pasta in Gurnee? The fact ...
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Amid Trump mess, GOP candidates shine at RedStateAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - It's likely the Donald Trump melodrama is the only news you've heard from the RedState Gathering of conservatives in Atlanta. But something unusual happened here, and it...
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Questions about middle classAug 13, 2015 7:54 pm - Mr. Speaker, your Aug. 5 opinion piece in the Daily Herald, "Let's cooperate, with moderation," initiated a public dialogue. Let's continue that dialogue right here on t...
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We're making legal immigrants second-classAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - Within the last week, a writer asked to explain the difference between an illegal alien and an immigrant. The United States in its wisdom sets quotas by country and ca...
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A year after Ferguson, little has changedAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - To establish my credentials, here's an insignificant event that happened to my wife and me a bit before last year's tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri. We'd taken our daily ...
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Change limits to save Social SecurityAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - Watch the Republican politicians - all of them - fight like heck to block the plan to save Social Security by simply removing the limit on paying for Social Security whe...
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Planned Parenthood vote seals position on KirkAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - Sen. Mark Kirk has voted and conspired with Senate Democrats to support Parent Parenthood's ghoulish harvesting and selling of aborted baby parts. Here's how it works: ...
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Constitution change needed to fix pensionsAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - Our state and Chicago, and you can add Cook County, are clearly sinking and have gotten so far in debt that it seems clear no leader can move to save us from bankruptcy ...
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Meacham ramp work is a disasterAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - The village of Schaumburg and the Illinois Tollway get a failing grade - really a zero - for their handling of the construction of new tollway ramps on Meacham Road. Fo...
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Inappropriate head-busting headlineAug 13, 2015 12:00 am - The sports headline: "I'm ready to go out and bust someone's head open" in Bob LeGere's football sports column on July 30 is completely inappropriate if we want to encou...
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