Diamond Lake Opinion
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Editorial: Patience, good will help close river trail dealOct 14, 2015 11:00 pm - Lake County Forest Preserve District officials soon will cut the ribbon on the long-awaited completion of one of the agency's most popular attractions that's been decade...
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Editorial: U of I wrong home for renowned postcard archivesOct 13, 2015 11:00 pm - Picture postcards were the pre-Facebook way to brag about your vacation to people who were stuck back at home or in the office. Some showed dramatic landscapes or points...
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Teachers should put kids above moneyOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - I feel strikes should be prohibited when school is in session. I get that unions make strikes legal, but they interfere with the education of the students. It's disappo...
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Local leaders should avoid small issuesOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - I agree that it is not very efficient for local governments to exercise legislative power on inconveniences like outlawing squirrel feeders or gravel driveways. These t...
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Maybe public school teachers should reflectOct 04, 2015 1:00 am - As I listen to all the coverage of various teacher strikes or near strikes in many public schools this fall, I can't help but think about all the Catholic schoolteachers...
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Tollway madness; Enough is enoughSep 27, 2015 1:00 am - I am a 21-year resident of Lake County, Illinois. From the day we moved into our home in Mundelein, we've read and heard of plans to extend Route 53 from Lake-Cook Road ...
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Vernon Hills race protest misguidedSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - Let's understand why Desmond Clark and his wife are now marching on Vernon Hills High School. They are doing so because their son was suspended for violation of administ...
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Dold vote a betrayal to his partySep 23, 2015 1:00 am - When politicians like U.S. Rep. Robert Dold abandon their party's core ideology to win re-election one asks oneself "What will they do when they come for you?" How groun...
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Townships should hit benchmarks of non-profitsSep 20, 2015 1:00 am - Your article "Where aid funds go" was enlightening and very disheartening. By most measures, any non-government non-profit organization with overhead expenses (i.e., sa...
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Journalists not digging enoughSep 16, 2015 1:00 am - A funny thing happened to journalists on the way to the 21st century. They lost all curiosity. During the decade of the 1990s, I noticed something odd in the news repo...