Campton Hills Opinion
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The SoapboxAug 18, 2012 6:00 am - Going the extra mile: Teachers at Anne Fox Elementary School in Hanover Park know family involvement is important to students' success, and they went out of their way th...
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Diverse council needed in GenevaAug 17, 2012 4:40 am - At the recent Geneva Council commitee of the whole meeting, the issue of whether or not a liquor license holder has the right to hold an alderman position was on the age...
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Let’s call them Obama tax cutsAug 16, 2012 4:40 am - Letter writer Tom Minnerick thinks President Bush’s policies gave us a recession. Why then did President Obama extend the Bush tax rates twice? I think the tax rates are...
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Income tax part of Marx’s communist planAug 15, 2012 4:40 am - In my last letter I addressed plank one of Marx’s 10 planks of the “Communist Manifesto:” abolition of private property. It could be argued that plank one has not been e...
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Editorial: Turnaround at Lake County Fair encouragingAug 14, 2012 5:00 am - The attendance figures for the 84th annual Lake County Fair, which ended a couple of weeks ago, won’t knock anyone’s socks off. A total of 91,548 visitors, up about 2.8 ...
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Troubled by ECC public safety, truck schoolsAug 14, 2012 4:40 am - The Burlington village board OK’d a conceptual plan for ECC’s vision of a regional public safety and sustainability facility. We the people voted to approve a $178 milli...
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Editorial: St. Charles prison must be safe for all teensAug 13, 2012 5:00 am - If you knew or had been told something in your house wasn’t safe for your children, would you wait nearly three years to have it fixed? If you knew, for instance, your b...
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D303 should fix weighted gradesAug 12, 2012 4:40 am - I read Jake O’Hara’s and Britney Davidson’s letters regarding class rank with great interest. I agree with Britney that life is competitive and working to achieve high c...
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Exclusion of gays not very ChristianAug 12, 2012 4:40 am - On July 16 a special committee of the Boy Scouts of America voted to exclude gays from their organization. This has nothing to do with a mockery of marriage, civil union...
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Will Daily Herald pick Romney or Obama?Aug 09, 2012 4:40 am - Mitt Romney’s VP choice aside, who will the Daily Herald pick this time around? In 2008, Republican nominee John McCain had a long record of bipartisan leadership. He wa...