McHenry County Opinion
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Wanted by disillusioned public: leadersOct 31, 2021 5:34 pm - While candidates and pundits wonder endlessly if a presidential wannabe is black enough or woman enough, too Mormon, too liberal or too conservative, voters and taxpaye...
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Emotion, conflict help put life in budget storiesOct 31, 2021 5:23 pm - Budget stories always present a quandary for newspapers. On one hand, tracking how governments spend tax money is one of the most important things we do in a democracy....
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Stable ACT scores can't mask concernsOct 31, 2021 5:21 pm - Why are so few Illinois high school graduates prepared for basic college-level academics? And how can matters be improved? Those again emerge as the most important quest...
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This group earned pink slips, not raisesOct 31, 2021 5:15 pm - Only a governor operating in left field and a legislature operating in the financial twilight zone could subject Illinois residents to such governmental ineptitude as we...
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Don't pull license when pulled overOct 31, 2021 5:01 pm - In Illinois, you need a license to drive. But you also need that license to board an airplane. Or to get a marriage license. There are occasions when you must show a dri...
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Volunteering helps in so many waysOct 31, 2021 4:55 pm - The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) has been assisting non-profit agencies throughout McHenry and Kane counties since 1987, when Senior Services Associates a...
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Memo to NFL: Keep vests, lose logosOct 31, 2021 4:53 pm - In order for our work as journalists to mean anything and to be taken seriously, we must bring to our work a number of qualities. That list is lengthy, but a short versi...
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That's one for charter schoolsOct 31, 2021 4:43 pm - Suburban school officials never have cared much for charter public schools, viewing them mostly as interlopers who siphon cash off from a district's other schools. That ...
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Letters to the Editor - McHenry CountyOct 31, 2021 4:39 pm - Nothing like reading before criticizing Well, congratulations Nancy Brown! For what? For taking her head out of the sand and opening her mind (July 17 Harry Potter story...
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Letters to the Editor - Kane and McHenry CountiesOct 31, 2021 4:30 pm - Best support for troops a ticket home The recent long fight between Congress and the president over the supplemental appropriation for the war in Iraq for 2007 is barely...
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