Articles filed under Discuss

• Honor servicemen, women this month May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Streamwood letter to the editor: Service members miss birthdays, graduations and spending time with their family, and this month is only one of the many ways we can show our gratitude.
  

   

• Hold school districts accountable for ‘sweet’ union deals May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Lake Bluff letter to the editor: I was pleased to read in the Daily Herald on May 10, the article on how the Illinois Policy Institute was in sync with Gov. Quinn's pension plan to gradually shift payments for the retirement system back to the local taxing bodies over a three-year period.
  

   

• Church’s stance on women hurts itself May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Mount Prospect letter to the editor: The Vatican appears to be counting on a rise in the number of obedient, conservative Catholics and the dying out and/or smothering of what they must consider dispensable progressive forces represented by the LCWR and its fervent supporters.
  

   

• Reject lawmakers who backed tax increase May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Mundelein letter to the editor: This year, when Illinois voters decide whom they'll support for the state legislature, I hope all of them will remember what happened in January 2011.
  

   

• The Soapbox May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Daily Herald editors write about Memorial Day, state cuts to municpalities and Google's big purchase in Libertyville. Find out what else is on their minds.
  

   

• Say no to Medicaid reform amendments May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Sleepy Hollow letter to the editor: Medicaid is a costly program and introducing 474 pages of legislation 10 days before the General Assembly's spring session ends is irresponsible. Oppose the legislation, especially House Committee Amendment No. 3 and call for well crafted reform that includes public hearings to solicit input from both program participants as well as taxpayers.
  

   

• Stop entitlements; right financial ship May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Campton Hills letter to the editor: There are just not sufficient tax dollars to fund the many entitlements that have been given over many years and that causes the heavy borrowing to continue each year. We have to get real and stop looking for an endless supply of "free stuff."
  

   

• Obama’s big step to fight Alzheimer’s May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  An Elgin letter to the editor: On May 15, the Obama administration released the first national plan to fight Alzheimer's disease and made an unprecedented commitment to stop the disease by 2025. The plan takes a two-pronged approach to prevent and effectively treat the disease, combining a focus on investing in future treatments with supports for families suffering under the weight of Alzheimer's today.
  

   

• Pension system can’t be viable May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Geneva letter to the editor: I don't want to deny state pensioners the right to collect what they were promised, but compare it to folks on Social Security who paid in just a little less, then matched by their employer. If Social Security is going broke, how can the state pensions be viable?
  

   

• Lack of property tax relief unconscionable May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Bloomingdale letter to the editor: Despite the third consecutive year of falling home prices, our elected officials have failed to reduce property taxes. For governing bodies not to consider tax relief is bad enough, but for them to raise taxes is unconscionable.
  

   

• Do teachers deserve all the ill-will? May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Naperville letter to the editor: In reading the May 11 Fence Post letter regarding teachers pensions, I found I also read with considerable amusement, especially in light of so many "myth-conceptions," regarding teachers and education in general:
  

   

• Gun control hardly a success in Germany May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Wood Dale letter to the editor: We all know where Hitler's gun regulation law led — World War II and the many lives lost, the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million Jews, just for being Jews. And yet, those who want us to think that the solution to all the killing by guns in the wrong hands is to take the freedom to keep and bear arms from all citizens in America.
  

   

• Mother’s Day is for stepmothers, too May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  An Elk Grove Village letter to the editor: Regarding Ken Potts' column on stepmothers getting their own day like Mother's Day: Please, please, please don't suggest a separate day for stepmothers. There shouldn't even be a separate card; Mother's Day is for all mothers.
  

   

• Taxation should end when income ceases May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Rolling Meadows letter to the editor: Are we just when we fine the prosperous, penalize the industrious and reward the shiftless with a system of taxation? Without property rights, there can be no domestic tranquility.
  

   

• A root beer float with meaning May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Vernon Hills letter to the editor: We met on the afternoon of Sept. 15, 1968. We were both 19-year old Marines who were part of a battalion-size operation in the hills of South Vietnam near the DMZ
  

   

• Editorial: Put the skids on massive gambling expansion May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Illinois has the worst pension funding gap in the nation, a multi-billion-dollar backlog of unpaid bills and Medicaid expenses that are skyrocketing. And what, a Daily Herald editorial asks, are our legislators voting on? Major gambling expansion. It's as if they think one big, shiny extinguisher will put out a four-alarm fire.
  

   

• Bad intersection can be made much safer May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Letter to the editor: Al Sprehe says Dundee and St. Armand Drive has been a dangerous intersection for a long time, but he's got a couple of suggestions to make it safer.
  

   

• Schools grateful for work of SCARCEMay 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Letter to the editor: Dana Weiby applauds SCARCE, which helps schools with needed supplies. "This organization maintains a warehouse of recycled books, textbooks and other supplies for classrooms where teachers can go 'shop' for free supplies," she writes.
  

   

• Elk Grove Village can lead by example May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Letter to the editor: Dan Vincent will pay the higher water and sewer fees recently imposed, but suggests Elk Grove Village lead the way on water conservation. "I ask that the city and the park district do the same by turning off the automatic sprinkler systems that water all the greenery, even in the rain, to set the example," he writes.
  

   

• Vets deserve mental health care at home May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Letter to the editor: Maryrose Peters thinks Arlington Hts. is being a bit two-faced about Vietnam veterans -- thrilled to cheer them in the Memorial Day parade, but unwilling to house them if they have mental illness. "I can only imagine what it will be like ... after the few hours of lauding them with well deserved honor and appreciation, Arlington Heights will turn some of them back onto the streets without adequate housing and care," she writes.