Fox River Grove Opinion
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Teachers should take pay cutsMay 19, 2010 11:00 pm - A recent letter by Helen Clark of Algonquin gave a most accurate reference that teachers need to stop complaining. I am in total agreement with her comments as are the m...
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Extend monitoring of CN mergerMay 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Was it an honest mistake? Or a calculated move to minimize the effect of bringing more freight trains on the EJ&E railroad tracks? The true answer may never be known. Bu...
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Rec. center would keep teens on pathMay 17, 2010 11:00 pm - If there were a place in the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills area that kids could go to and hang out with friends, meet new people, get involved with their community and be ...
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Kagan embodies values we need nowMay 17, 2010 11:00 pm - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." These words were written by Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 16, 1963, from Birmingham Jail in the sweltering hea...
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Parochial bus cuts amplify burdenMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Dr. Arndt, shame on you and the District 300 school board for balancing the budget for the education deficits on the backs of the parents of the parochial school student...
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Wasn't defending indefensible actsMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - In response to Kate Bochte's letter to the Fence Post Tuesday, April 20, Bochte seems to have a real ax to grind. I ask you, where in my Fence Post letter of April 15 di...
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Franks, Tryon serve us wellMay 13, 2010 11:00 pm - There is much criticism, and deservedly so, of the Illinois legislature. McHenry County, however, is well served by State Reps. Jack Franks and Mike Tryon. I recently sa...
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Clintons can't both be rightMay 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Three short years ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an impassioned plea for her inalienable right to criticize and disagree with our elected government, accurately descri...
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Unions drive up cost of teacher pensionsMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Your recent Sunday editorial on Springfield's broken promise on pensions makes an important point, but if the key question is accountability, you gave the teacher's unio...
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Union advice must be good, right?May 10, 2010 11:00 pm - I noticed an article in the Daily Herald with the caption "State poised to miss pension payments." Then I recalled two recent conversations with teachers from separate s...