Carpentersville Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: No news is good newsFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - After a couple of rather disastrous recent elections, Kane County finally seems to have gotten one right. Despite a turnout 50 percent higher than in the 2004 primary, C...
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Politicians don't get basic economicsFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Liberals think that when consumption (which is known as the economy) slows, government stimulation is the antidote. This belief displays obvious ignorance of some of th...
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Saturday Soapbox: When quantity mattersFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Seems the students at Elgin School District U-46's Gifford Street High School have found themselves on an unplanned diet. The district is now addressing complaints that ...
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Speak plainly about U-46's cost sourceFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - As a taxpayer I would appreciate down-to-Earth, straight talk on the Elgin Area School District U-46 budget. Don't tell me there has been a tremendous increase in the co...
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Knowing difference isn't prejudiceFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - There is nothing prejudiced about wanting anyone who enters our country or city or town to enter it legally. What is so hard to understand? Illegal is not legal and we h...
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Dalton's accusation leaves her offendedFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - It has come to my attention recently that John Dalton and the organization he has formed, Speak Out Against Prejudice (SOAP), has labeled people agreeing with Associatio...
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Using the house the governor won'tFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I have a couple of ideas to raise some money for our cash-strapped state. Since the governor prefers to live in Chicago, I propose that the governor's mansion be renamed...
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John Dalton needs to check dictionaryFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - John Dalton needs to look up the definitions in a dictionary of "illegal" and "prejudice." Elgin has so many illegal people here that it is a very severe matter that nee...
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'Embracing' council members must goFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Illegal immigration is not about racism, it is about illegal immigrants sucking all of our tax dollars away from people who are in this country legally and deservedly ne...
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Hypocritical claim to reverence of lawFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The issue of illegal immigrants is simply this -- legal vs. illegal. That is all that needs to be said. It is about right and wrong and nothing more. Clearly Speak Out ...