Arlington Heights Opinion
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He’s got a gripe with his letter carrierApr 22, 2013 5:00 am - I’ll bargain most people believe the Post Office is obligated to deliver mail to your mailbox. Not true. Apparently in Arlington Heights it is up to the letter carrier t...
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‘Legal’ pension bill is what we needApr 21, 2013 5:00 am - The “new” approach to Illinois government appears familiar. It appears that all solutions for the pension crisis have been considered. The only idea is HB 1165. (I would...
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Assumed guilt led to dismissal of chargesApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - The three Schaumburg police officers who are accused of wrongdoing have not been convicted in a court of law. Therefore, the 19 people who were arrested by them had case...
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Disabled were ‘bullied’ out of opportunityApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - I took my daughters to hear a Holocaust survivor recently, and the most powerful statement the woman made was not in her remarkable story of survival but in the closing ...
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Cats aren’t alone preying on birdsApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - Froma Harrop, thanks for the interesting column, “Cats and dingoes: a birds-eye view.” There is just one thing you forgot to mention: hawks. I have at least one dead bir...
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Let’s question U.S. purchases of armsApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - Why is the U.S. government buying up 1.6 billion bullets for Homeland Security? Many of these are hollow-point bullets. This will create a shortage of bullets for the Am...
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Tolerance must come from both sidesApr 14, 2013 5:00 am - Tolerance must come from both sides “The Bible should never be used to promote or oppose legislation and public policy,” according to Mr. Fanella in the March 24 Fe...
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Editorial: Do we fight over pensions? Or find solutions?Apr 14, 2013 5:00 am - Last Monday, our Editor John Lampinen announced that the Daily Herald will be co-sponsoring a public forum later this month with Reboot Illinois, a civic-minded digital ...
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The SoapboxApr 13, 2013 5:00 am - Winfield does its duty: Let’s hear it for the civic-minded citizenry of the village of Winfield. In a town of about 9,000 people, where hardball and contentious politics...
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We pay taxes for things we don’t useApr 13, 2013 5:00 am - After reading the article in the March 28 morning paper regarding the property tax debate in Long Grove, I had a good laugh about Mr. Borawski’s comment “That’s a heck o...