Campton Hills Opinion
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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...
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Editorial: ‘Civic contribution’ an unseemly skimAug 08, 2012 5:00 am - A tenth of a penny doesn’t sound like much — especially when it can be translated into thousands of dollars for government. But when it comes to the faith between citize...
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Fracking is our futureAug 08, 2012 4:40 am - A July 24 letter tried, once again, to scare people. In this instance, it was the prophecy of doom from global warming, in spite of the fact that worldwide temperatures ...
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Support tax cut for middle classAug 08, 2012 4:40 am - Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a bill continuing the temporary 2001 income tax cuts for people whose yearly incomes are less than $250,000. Ninety-eight percent of us ...
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Don’t feed left’s money machineAug 08, 2012 4:40 am - Barely have the victims and bystanders of the horrible shooting spree in Colorado been allowed to go back and retrieve their cars before I read in the column of John Kas...