Opinion Stories from August 16, 2012 (Change date)
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Pledge on Sept. 19 to never text and driveAug 16, 2012 11:16 pm - Cellphones have come a long way. Today, they provide services that simplify and enhance our lives in ways previously unimaginable. With these new capabilities come new r...
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Addiction shouldn’t be a criminal matterAug 16, 2012 11:17 pm - I found your editorial highlighting your coverage of drugs in the suburbs to be very self-serving. I agree that we should work to remove any type of stigma associated wi...
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ID law would keep people from votingAug 16, 2012 11:17 pm - This month marks the 47th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination in voting and has been instrumental in ensuring citizens’ vo...
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Seeking the good to come of tragedyAug 16, 2012 10:21 pm - “The world’s on fire, the world’s on fire, the world’s on fire ... God help us!” Those were the words of the hymn playing in the Palatine gurdwara at a service to rememb...
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Workplace language must be appropriateAug 16, 2012 10:21 pm - Writer Karla Miller’s response to a reader asking how to deal with a complaining co-worker was extremely inappropriate. In her July 29 column in Business she said to use...
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Start outcry against assault weaponsAug 16, 2012 10:21 pm - For those of us who felt helpless after the shooting rampage in the movie theater in Aurora, Colo., there is now something we can do. Our governor, Patrick Quinn, has la...
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A question about our gun policyAug 16, 2012 10:21 pm - Why are all the politicians and activists advocating gun control well protected by men with guns? Tony Novak Arlington Heights ...
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I will take the fairy dustAug 17, 2012 11:27 am - President Obama’s primary response to the Romney/Ryan ticket is to accuse them of having a plan of “trickle-down fairy dust.” What the president does not realize is that...
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Thanks for work on historical projectAug 17, 2012 11:27 am - On behalf of the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society, I wish to say a public “thank you” to Mike Foley and Roch Tranel for the truly beautiful new exterior of the ...
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Ulterior motives for new principalAug 17, 2012 11:26 am - Imagine my surprise when I read the Daily Herald article from Aug. 9 about Juan H. Gardner being hired as Round Lake High School’s new principal. Actually I’m not surpri...
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