Crystal Lake Opinion
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Arguing again for a six-year presidentApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Seeing George W. Bush in office for two terms was quite numbing. This is a perfect example of the importance of a proposal that fell on deaf ears many years ago, that ha...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Chronicling elusive standard of judgment by 'content of character'Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Random thoughts: Sometimes the news is its own object lesson. Daily Herald Staff Writer Emily Krone worked for a week and a half to find and interview suburbanites who c...
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Reject ploy to hike taxes for educationApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - State government thinks educating Illinois children is about money, not learning. The Illinois State Board of Education regularly lowers the achievement bar so we can ke...
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Citizens need this portal to accountabilityApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - You've just filed your Illinois tax return. And you're more than a little angry about how much you've paid in state taxes given the fiscal shenanigans in Springfield. So...
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And now, some more of that fertilizer!Apr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - A March 28 letter by Michael Schindel about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama was revealing. Schindel's judgment that Wright is a "black bigot" because of the r...
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Airline employees subsidizing low faresApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - After years of huge losses, poor service, passenger inconvenience, the destruction of airline employees' retirements and quality of life, along with the continued increa...
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Educators aren't just principals, teachersApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Now comes the story of Al Weber. Weber, as Daily Herald reporter Sheila Ahern wrote last week, was not what we normally think of when we hear the word educator. He was ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Homing inApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Potential adopters don't have to pay an adoption fee and adoptees don't have to submit to a bunch of inoculations, but the annual Adopt-a-Cougar program is all about fin...
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Some interesting newsmakers aren't the usual newsmakersApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - We don't always have to look to Hollywood, Washington or Wrigley Field to find people with the most-interesting or even most influential lives. Where do you go to meet t...