Island Lake Opinion
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Industry should help Illinois win goldJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - In March, consulting firm Global Smart Energy awarded Illinois a silver medal - behind gold medalists California and Texas - in its smart grid rankings that scored compe...
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Franks does what's right for residentsJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Your June 5 editorial highlighted the fact that the only McHenry County legislator to support a sales tax holiday in Illinois was state Rep. Jack Franks. All the other a...
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Right idea, wrong politicianJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - The article written by Robert McCoppin in the Herald's July 6th edition titled "A bad case of loving himself" was very interesting, but I think that he got the name wron...
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Obama well on way to bankrupting U.S.Jul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Why hasn't the mainstream media caught on that Obama's policies will bankrupt our wonderful country? At the G8 and G-20 meeting this weekend, even our Socialist friends ...
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Make rewarding good part of planJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Recently, the Mundelein Police Department initiated their campaign to "oust" specific individuals from participating in the Mundelein carnival. I'd really like to know w...
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Illinois needs Kirk, a fiscal conservativeJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Mark Kirk is a fiscal conservative who was a co-sponsor of the Balanced Budget Amendment, voted against the trillion-dollar stimulus bill which has failed and only incre...
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Workers' demands out of the ordinaryJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - The construction workers unions are demanding raises of 5 percent (15 percent raise over 3 years). The current strike is disrespectful to taxpayers. Don't these unions r...
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No sense opposing financial reform billJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - How sad it is that with the unfortunate death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the passage of the president's financial reform legislation could actually now be in doubt. It seems t...
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Better Wall Street oversight needed, protection for consumersJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - After the scare of an economic collapse a couple years ago, an overhaul of the oversight rules for Wall Street seems due. We haven't had real consumer protection on the ...
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It's time for an Illinois tea partyJul 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Now that the Daily Herald has proclaimed, in a front page news story, that Cook County is perfectly within its right to mount red-light cameras within municipal boundari...