Opinion Stories from August 18, 2013 (Change date)
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No shame in responsible budgetingAug 18, 2013 6:00 am - Recently an article was published stating that Hainesville has more money in reserve than needed. Many municipalities did not appear on the radar with “surplus funds” d...
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Lowly investors get nothing from dealsAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - I note that another large bank, in this case UBS (following Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, etc.) has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission fo...
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A success story for housing for disabledAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - The Aug. 8 Daily Herald editorial highlighted a number of Northwest suburbs that rejected supportive living housing projects for the mentally disabled. As the editorial ...
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Editorial: The steady vanishing of Metra’s boardAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Who in their right mind, a colleague wondered the other day, would want to serve on the Metra commuter rail board? The question was asked only partially in jest. There w...
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A fair assessment of politics for 2014Aug 18, 2013 5:00 am - The Illinois State Fair in Springfield is a grand event for a state whose population is tilting quickly northeast to metropolitan Chicagoland. Its main draw is agricultu...
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Writer’s thinking on Founders is all wrongAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Mr. Richard Gideon, in a letter to editor on Aug. 2, wants us to believe that he has an inside track on the thinking of our “Founding Fathers.” He implied that the muzzl...
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Naperville’s duck tickets and other shameless newsAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shameless...
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Tired of Obama campaigning, travelsAug 18, 2013 4:40 am - Tired of Obama campaigning, travels Thanks to John Gray for articulating thoughts that I have had for a long time. Not only am I tired of Obama’s campaigning, I am ...
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What’s happened to this country?Aug 18, 2013 4:40 am - What’s happened to this country? What is going on in this country? We can send billions to other countries all over the world. We can rebuild Iraq but we can’t rebu...
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