Inverness Opinion
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Claims information withheld in Dist. 15Mar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - At the District 15 school board meeting on Feb. 25, the thorny issue of board member access to the district's financial information reared its ugly head. Once again, boa...
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Vote will prove you can fight city hallMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Anyone who grew up in the Depression in Chicago, as I did, will remember that saying, "You can't fight city hall." But we can and will by voting in April on the referend...
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Frisk: Overwhelmed by your generosityMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - I have been so overwhelmed by the cards, letters, e-mails, phone calls and school tributes since I retired after 50 years with the Daily Herald that I thought this might...
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Saturday SoapboxMar 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Time for a talk A 2008 Lake County Health Department survey of 20,000 middle school and high school students shows fewer used alcohol, marijuana, inhalants and cigarette...
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Festival cutbacks aren't wisest choiceMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just a few days ago in this space, we urged suburban residents to resist the temptation to let fear of this wretched economy get the best of us. Rather than hunkering d...
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Presidential trips must be expensiveMar 03, 2009 10:00 pm - It is interesting to me that there has been zero discussion recently about the enormous expense associated with President Obama's four trips to Florida, Indiana and Illi...
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Now, let's find way to keep guardsMar 01, 2009 10:00 pm - So Rolling Meadows "came up" with $25,000 to pay seven crossing guards for the rest of the school year. Congratulations! Now they need to "come up" with $56,000 to keep ...
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Time to secede from Cook County?Feb 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Recently, five members of the Illinois General Assembly reached out to Hanover Township Supervisor Mike Kelly and several other township supervisors in Northwest Cook Co...
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Saturday SoapboxFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Another gauge of road damage: We have another, nonscientific gauge of how badly winter has hurt suburban roads: Daily Herald editors who are road cyclists. As we await s...
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Extend tax credit for Catholic schoolsFeb 16, 2009 10:00 pm - The Chicago Archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools (OCS) has distributed its "Year in Review" Report 2009 detailing its accomplishments, data and progress in three focu...