Crystal Lake Opinion
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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...
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Don’t make kids grow up so fastJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - Regarding your article on June 26: Little girls between ages of 3 and 13 being given manicures/pedicures, hair styling, with falls, learning how to put make up on by a c...
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Why weren’t the assessors there?Jun 25, 2011 11:00 pm - There was a meeting June 18 at Sun City’s Drendal Hall to review the tax discrepancy between Rutland and Grafton townships. The hall was filled to capacity, approximatel...
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Support in-state hospital groupJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - Centegra Health System and its predecessor organizations have supported the Northwest suburbs for more than 100 years. I believe that Centegra is a better choice to cont...
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Unions created middle classJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - Union membership has never been more than 30 percent of the workforce. What that 30 percent did was establish the middle class by raising wages, creating a 40-hour workw...
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Eat like your ancestors didJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - Because we are all “programmed” with certain beliefs, we tend to do things over and over without much thought. Much of what we hear, and go on to believe, is out of date...
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Eugenics alive and well in AmericaJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - In-depth research for the article on forced sterilization neglects to mention that one of the founding persons and leader of the American Eugenics movement in the early ...
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Our property tax system has run amokJun 23, 2011 1:00 am - I was at the Sun City-Huntley meeting on July 18 listening to all of the trauma about how high Kane County taxes were. All I know is I live in Sun City in Grafton Townsh...