Crystal Lake Opinion
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Enjoying your Great Society?Jul 09, 2011 12:00 am - There is an ongoing discussion about raising the national debt level. I use level instead of limit because it will continue to increase ad infinitum. The politicians are...
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The SoapboxJul 08, 2011 12:00 am - Finally, a single card: We’re certainly on board with Pace, Metra and the CTA in their decision to finally go to a universal fair system — but by 2015? Seems a long time...
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Don’t extend tax deal to SearsJul 08, 2011 12:00 am - Today, I read in the Daily Herald that the state is in discussions with Sears attempting to keep them at their Hoffman Estates campus. I have lived in the same house in ...
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What’s a fair wage for a good teacher?Jul 06, 2011 12:00 am - On Sunday, the Daily Herald published the results of a study that staff writer Larissa Chinwah undertook examining the salaries of the 14,217 public school teachers empl...
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Business is engine of economyJul 05, 2011 3:00 am - Mr. Frankel mixes fact with fiction, as most liberals are wont to do. First, he incorrectly says supply side economics does not work. Reagan proved that false. Every ti...
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What summer festivals bring to our sense of communityJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - This is one of our favorite weekends of the year, and it isn’t just because of the patriotic spirit that comes alive on Independence Day. We unabashedly and unashamedly ...
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Don’t make assumptionsJul 02, 2011 1:00 am - In a recent letter from Mr. Bell, he stated that he attended the June 18 meeting at Sun City concerning the inequities that exist within the current tax bills in Rutland...
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What summer festivals bring to our sense of communityJul 02, 2011 12:00 am - This is one of our favorite weekends of the year, and it isn’t just because of the patriotic spirit that comes alive on Independence Day. We unabashedly and unashamedly ...
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Stop deer culling; leave them aloneJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - Seventy healthy, innocent deer were slaughtered to undergo expensive testing of questionable value for chronic wasting disease by the Illinois Department of Natural Reso...
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Weather safety is your responsibilityJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - Our former home in Cincinnati was in the path of the deadly F-4 Montgomery-Blue Ash tornado. Most people did not hear the sirens. There was no roaring train sound. For o...