Crystal Lake Opinion
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Housing market on local level is strongNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - In its recent article on national trends in the housing industry (Oct. 27, Associated Press, "Worse before it improves … All things housing predicted to fall: prices, sa...
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On life and death matters, we must resist dealing in speculationNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Speculation is about the only stock in trade for some mysteries. But that doesn't excuse openly dealing in the commodity An Austin, Texas-based PR agent offered us an in...
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Soapbox: Lawsuit presents a conflictNov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Naperville City Councilman Richard Furstenau, who earlier this year was acquitted of striking a Naperville police officer, has every right to file a federal civil rights...
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Rights supported, credibility suspectNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - I would like to applaud McHenry County College's president for supporting the right of the Illinois Minuteman to rent event space on the campus and reminding the protest...
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Sureness of belief isn't superiorityNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - I feel the need to address the portrayal of Christians set forth by M. Klemenz's Oct. 26 letter. Christians do not presume to the have the corner on morality in this wo...
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Adoption stories tell only part of the taleNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - I was disturbed to read Sunday's article, "Suburban families fear moratorium on foreign adoptions." What disturbs me is not that these families have been unable to adopt...
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Vigorous defense of freedoms by college presidentOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Given the heat of the debate and the edginess of the rhetoric on illegal immigration, it isn't often we can unequivocally say it resulted in a lot of people "doing the r...
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Writer's contentions wrong in letterOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald printed a letter to the editor on Oct. 19 from Robert Allare. Included was this statement, which is factually false: "At a recent board meeting, the fac...
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War profiteering at heart of meetingOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Corporations that profit from the war economy -- Lockheed-Martin (weapons), Halliburton and Bechtel (infrastructure) and Blackwater (security) -- contribute millions of ...
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Taylor's story is a gift to readersOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald is my hero today. Your decision to run Taylor Radtke's story on the first page and keep it in front of the public each day, resulted in giving the girl ...