Elburn Opinion
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Committee sends Longmeadow toll bridge funding to full Kane County BoardSep 18, 2018 1:00 am - Commuters on the north end of Kane County will have a new Fox River crossing option in the form of a 95-cent toll bridge if the full county board follows the lead set Tu...
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Editorial: Complaining over the wrong distractions in Van Dyke prosecutionSep 16, 2018 11:00 pm - As a nationally watched murder trial gets under way in Chicago, the chairman of the Kane County Board is worried about the wrong distractions involving the trial's prose...
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Hold them accountableAug 27, 2018 1:00 am - I've read a number of comments criticizing the "left-leaning" press. One letter to the editor accused the press of relentlessly pursuing the destruction of the American ...
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Press didn't cover Obama's misstatementsAug 27, 2018 1:00 am - It was with great interest that I read the self-serving editorial on freedom of the press and Trumps attack on the media for being fake news. The plan to have so many pa...
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Why not fight consent decree?Aug 18, 2018 1:00 am - It sure seems to me that something is "off" in Kane County regarding the Maxxam consent decree. Since State's Attorney Joe McMahon negotiated the consent decree in a non...
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Columnist's simplistic view of povertyAug 10, 2018 1:00 am - "Poverty is no mystery, and it's easily avoidable," Walter E. Williams wrote in the Daily Herald. If it were so avoidable, then why has poverty existed for so long all o...
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Don't despair. VoteAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - Readers may think of these times as a new "Dark Age" of politics, but we should not despair. People need to vote, but not despair. About 50 years ago, there was a book d...
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Blame lawmakers who won't fix health care systemAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - Definition of "actuary": a person who compiles and analyzes statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums. Opponents of Obamacare made all sorts of ...
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County should stand up to unionsAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - I read with great interest that the Kane County board seems to be at a dilemma with respect to property taxes vis-a-vis next year's budget. In the same article, it was p...
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It's premature to back court nomineeAug 05, 2018 1:00 am - The Supreme Court nomination is of great interest to most of us, or should be, because of the implications for court protection or reversal of protection of many rights ...