Crystal Lake Opinion
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Time to give voters power of the recallMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Before taking office as Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich ran a campaign based on the promise of change. Under his administration, Illinois has changed. Unfortunately, ...
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Hawthorn Woods must curtail credit-card useMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Spending limits are overdue as the village faces hard times. In these uneasy economic times, you might find yourself wondering what would happen if your income sharply d...
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Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
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Saturday Soapbox: Sound-off timeMar 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Tired of awful roads and traffic? A governor who wants to add programs when the state can't pay its bills? Of education and social assistance programs being held hostage...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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Gravel decision will live on a long timeMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Residents of Cary feel betrayed and ashamed by the actions of their village board members. In voting to allow a Zurich-based mining company to dig a gravel pit in the ba...
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Won't buy converter, or an HD TV setMar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - That dictatorship in Washington should not be allowed to tell the American people to buy converter boxes or new TVs so the bloodsucker big businesses can make big profit...
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Globalization good only for profiteersMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Globalization and "free trade" send good American jobs abroad, which creates unemployment, lowers wages and breaks unions. Downsizing and offshoring cost us our middle-c...
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Someone should have seen it comingFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - I wanted to express my deepest sympathy to everyone who was touched by the NIU shootings. In the days after the shootings, everyone was saying that there were no warn...
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Headed for life as Third World countryFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Well, it would appear that whoever gets elected to the presidency, there will be amnesty. All three candidates propose to get a "comprehensive plan" in place once electe...