Opinion Stories from November 2, 2012 (Change date)
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Let kids pay for lake water?Nov 02, 2012 5:00 am - I agree Wauconda needs Lake Michigan water. I live in unincorporated Wauconda. So I don’t get to vote on this question. But I do get to pay for it. Wauconda is now over ...
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Don’t accept the lunacy of candidatesNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - I have always thought of Indiana as a Third World country — a la Richard Mourdock — but now I have come to recognize Missouri as an equal partner, via the idiocy of Todd...
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More to a president than business successNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - While I believe the Herald was well intentioned in its endorsement of Mitt Romney, I believe that endorsement was fundamentally flawed. It seems, according to your Oct....
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Third party is not throwing vote awayNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - If this election cycle can teach us anything, it is that there is no desire for third parties. No desire for a different ideology in a game that is focused on only one v...
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Sente is not true independentNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - In Melody McGraw’s October 26 letter to the editor, she claims that Carol Sente stood up to her own party leadership in Springfield. Nothing could be further from the tr...
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What’s extreme about Tea Party?Nov 02, 2012 5:00 am - Who are the real extremists? Knowing the media portrays the Tea Party as being extreme, I decided to see for myself. I observed this first hand at a recent meeting. It ...
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Misleading ads against SenteNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - There seems to be much public sentiment that political campaigning is more negative and unethical than it has ever been. Whether this is true or not is the subject of so...
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On technical factors, Romney won debatesNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - This 2012 election had some major pros and cons for both President Obama and Gov. Romney. During the first debate our class was assigned for homework to watch for nonve...
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Prosecutor hopeful can beat adversityNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - My wife and I have known Chris Kennedy for more than 10 years. Besides being a steady friend, we’re impressed by Chris’s ability to manage times of adversity with both e...
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Think long-term and short on transportationNov 02, 2012 5:00 am - I’ve long felt that transportation is a key issue which impacts our daily lives and will continue to do so in the future. Unfortunately, the issue seems to always be cro...