East Dundee Opinion
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Palin's politics smack of failureSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Watching Sarah Palin's speech last night was validation that John McCain plans to run his campaign with the same approach used by George W. Bush. He plans to stoke our f...
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Don't worry about candidates' agesSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Mr. Lempa's comments on John McCain and the risks of electing a 72-year-old president made me smile. I have not made a voting decision yet, nor do I support either candi...
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Bean mailer misleads votersSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Today I received a mailer from the office of Congresswoman Melissa Bean, sent at taxpayers' expense. In the mailer Congresswoman Bean acknowledges "we need a strategic e...
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Legislator's update was ill-timedSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently, I received a copy of Ruth Munson's "Capitol Update" and noticed that it says it was "Printed by the Authority of the State of Illinois." As a taxpayer and a re...
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China must work on human rightsAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - As the president of a superpower nation that has made great strides to overcome and rectify its own history of human-rights horrors, Bush indeed has a responsibility to ...
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Bean not standing up for constituentsAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - As a citizen of Melissa Bean's district it is important that we know what kind of contributions our current representative is accepting from PACs. Campaigning should not...
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Bean a Congressional truantAug 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Sometimes missing, Melissa Bean: What member of the suburban delegation to the U.S. House has missed the most votes in the 110th Congress? A Soapbox Dart to Barringt...
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U.S. can't afford fiscal conservativeAug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - The reason that voters should reject John McCain in November is that he is a conservative, yes, a reactionary in the mode of Reagan and Bush. According to the Congressio...
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Lessons to learn from library disputeAug 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The thought of a heated legal battle regarding close to 1,600 acres is not something one would expect to entangle two area library boards. Consider that it's been going ...
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Reader wrong to claim paper biasAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - In his Aug. 3 letter, Emilio F. Marcos targets the Daily Herald, Europeans and Barack Obama for criticism. His aim however, is off and he misses badly. He begins by accu...