Inverness Opinion
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Tax on sugary drinks will benefit residentsJul 01, 2017 1:00 am - While medicine continues to advance with breakthrough treatments and medicines, we are still losing the war against obesity. Poor nutrition, combined with a lack of phys...
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Editorial: Mundelein, Dist. 211 and a call for local candidatesJun 29, 2017 2:00 am - We have a quandary. In an analysis of the November election, we learned that only 30 percent of potential local races were contested because there weren't more candidate...
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State, not county, should manage minimum wageJun 18, 2017 1:00 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle made a comment this past week about suburban communities who've opted out of Cook County's minimum wage hike and paid sick l...
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'Resistance strategy' is not helping countryMay 30, 2017 1:00 am - I consider myself in the political middle, generally right on economic matters and left on social issues. I do think our health care system needs to be more patient-cent...
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Values, not home, drove push for minimum wage hikeMay 26, 2017 1:00 am - I appreciate the kind words regarding my stewardship of Cook County that begin a recent Daily Herald editorial. Since taking office in December 2010, my administration h...
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Editorial: How Preckwinkle lost suburbs on minimum wageMay 18, 2017 1:00 am - As we've noted in this space plenty of times before, there is much that impresses us about Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. She has introduced discipline in...
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New Dist. 15 board: Change is up to youMay 15, 2017 5:00 am - I'm glad the new District 15 board is finally in place though unfortunately not all members were replaced. It is not possible to do any worse than the previous board and...
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New D15 board should try to rescind 10-year teacher contractMay 01, 2017 5:00 am - I was pleased to see that the current board of District 15 received a resounding rebuke from the property taxpayers in the district by all of them being ousted for their...
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Suburbs should not opt out of employee protectionsApr 28, 2017 1:00 am - By Toni Preckwinkle Guest columnist Economic development has been a priority for my administration since I took office in 2010. Recently, the Wall Street Journal recogn...
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Editorial: Delay Palatine District 15 school board appointmentApr 22, 2017 2:00 pm - The background: In Palatine Township Elementary District 15, an opposition slate of five candidates convincingly swept the five school board seats up for election earlie...