All Stories from February 25, 2024 (Change date)
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Polar plungers hit the pool in Fox Lake for Special OlympicsFeb 25, 2024 3:33 pm - Unseasonably comfortable air temperatures didn’t seem to help much based on the look on people’s faces Sunday when they hit the frigid water during the Fox Lake Polar Plunge for Special Olympics.
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The right candidates for judge seatsFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - I am a 56-year Palatine resident, former (24-year) Palatine councilman, (four-year) fire and police commissioner, (eight-year) park district commissioner and (six-year) m...
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Slam dunk for presidentFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - After despairing over the seemingly inevitable two choices in November, I have decided to write-in my pick. Caitlin Clark for president. Tom Walsh Palatine ...
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A Trump payoff planFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - So Donald Trump got slapped with a $355 million judgment for doing things that he shouldn’t have. So, what’s the big deal? If each one of his 74,216,728 MAGA followers wh...
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Beware breaking rules that hold republic togetherFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - Early 20th century writer and philosopher George Santayana is often quoted as stating. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The parallels betw...
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An accident of youth that eventually paid offFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - The Daily Herald’s Feb. 15 “An ‘old soul” story of the area’s last typewriter repairers prompted nostalgic thoughts of a time in my life, decades ago, when a journalist u...
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Sales tax is wrong for mental health servicesFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - The McHenry County Board seems more concerned about getting taxpayers to accept a new 0.25% sales tax for mental health funding rather than any serious concern for how th...
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Alabama court ruling raises frightening futureFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - I read with increasing horror the story about the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that frozen embryos are considered children. That indicates that each of these “childre...
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In return to United Center, Kane scores game-winner as fans roar for former Blackhawks greatFeb 25, 2024 12:12 pm - With some of the biggest stars from every walk of life sparkling throughout the United Center on Sunday, it only made sense that a three-time Stanley Cup champion known as Showtime would shine brightest in the end.
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St. Charles appoints five to task force studying dam removalFeb 25, 2024 10:17 am - With the decision on removing the St. Charles Dam from the Fox River looming, city council members have appointed the first members of the newly created Dam Task Force.