Opinion Stories from May 13, 2014 (Change date)
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Editorial: Failing grade for school funding fixMay 14, 2014 10:57 am - This could be an expensive session of the Illinois General Assembly for suburban taxpayers. At the same time Gov. Pat Quinn is pushing to make permanent an income tax in...
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What climate change means to ChicagoMay 13, 2014 5:05 am - You may be asking yourself: Is Chicago in for another summer like the one we had in 2012? But that's the wrong question. The right question is whether or not the weather...
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Editorial: Political risk should not kill a good budgeting ideaMay 13, 2014 5:15 am - In concept, a proposal from Democratic state Sen. Dan Kotowski to open the automatic funding of about 26 state programs to more scrutiny seems to be a classic no-brainer...
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School just a push for unionizationMay 13, 2014 5:05 am - In response to Georgia Lynn Carrasco's letter "Democrats are doing something about jobs," what Dick Durbin is doing has already been done all over the country. Democrats...
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Awareness of FOIA process stronger than everMay 13, 2014 5:05 am - In response to the Daily Herald report "FOIA requests, costs increasing in many municipalities," public bodies in Illinois should be ashamed of themselves when they comp...
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Israel shouldn't bow to America's demandsMay 13, 2014 5:05 am - I cannot recall seeing a more inane or blindly prejudiced letter in the Herald than the one from Jim Crane on April 26. His view is that Israel may not determine its own...
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Boycotting gas in West DundeeMay 13, 2014 5:05 am - I have anxiously been waiting for the decision from the village of West Dundee as to what they plan to do with their budget pending the imminent departure of the Target ...
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The booming Benghazi businessMay 13, 2014 1:05 am - Search the word "Benghazi," and up pops a paid link to a website that advertises: "Benghazi - T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Mugs and More." Click on the link and 401 items are ...
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