Opinion Stories from August 1, 2012 (Change date)
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Old-fashioned county fair has its appealAug 01, 2012 11:14 am - Sometimes old-fashioned traditions are the best of life. My family and I, once again, visited the Lake County Fair this weekend. The experience is hard to describe, but...
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Loss of wind tax credit will cost jobsAug 01, 2012 11:14 am - Surely, as the election season heats up, politicians will extol the American people on the need for domestic jobs (and hopefully work toward this goal). Surely, as the M...
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Editorial: In brutal summer, recommit to water safetyAug 01, 2012 9:34 am - It’s becoming almost routine this summer to hear about tragedies on Chicago-area waterways, and the death of a 10-year-old Libertyville boy near Lake Villa last weekend ...
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Writer’s arguments not convincingAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - On July 7, the Daily Herald published a letter by Jim Finnegan, who opposes gay marriage. Here’s what’s wrong with it: First, he explains that the issue at hand is a per...
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Busted: Mr. Pfeiffer and the White House BlogAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - Shortly after 9/11, President George W. Bush received from Prime Minister Tony Blair a bust of Winston Churchill as an expression of British-American solidarity. Bush ga...
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Why all the lawsuits over accidents?Aug 01, 2012 5:00 am - Isn’t this all what we expected? There is always someone or some company that is responsible for any accident. When I saw there were victims in the Glenview train derail...
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The right’s blind eye on government spendingAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - My boyhood friend Jack became a doctor -- and a conservative. He had gone to public schools, attended college with the help of a government scholarship, went to medical ...
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Vote for tougher gun lawsAug 01, 2012 4:40 am - What does it take to change our weak gun laws in America? What does it take to start an end to senseless killings of innocent Americans by the hands of deranged semiauto...
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Riverside Plaza one big failureAug 01, 2012 4:40 am - Algonquin’s Riverside Plaza development was doomed to fail from the start, if you ask me. Our village planners took the busiest intersection in all of McHenry County and...
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Trees can be hurt by poor drainage, tooAug 01, 2012 4:35 am - Trees can be hurt by poor drainage, too Being in a prolonged drought I was surprised to see the article “Too much water can shorten a tree’s life” by Jan Riggenbach...
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