Island Lake Opinion
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Drop the belt and talk to your kidsMar 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Anyone remember the Golden Rule? It seems that for some parents these days, it only applies if their kids adhere to the Fifth Commandment. You know, the one where you ar...
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Many reasons for students' failureMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Recently I have been hearing about the government officials closing schools due to student's low performance. As a teacher with more than 42 years experience, and an adj...
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Teens: Write and be heardMar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - How often do teens step up and write to a newspaper? I can guarantee that I'm one of the few that even reads more than the comics, at least in my school. Most of the peo...
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Getting out is key to child developmentMar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - The Leave No Child Inside Consortium of the Greater Barrington, Deer Park, and Lake Zurich Area is thrilled to see the Daily Herald support the need to get children outs...
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We all pay cost for uninsuredMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - I am writing to you to express my deep concern for the need for national health care reform. My husband and I always believed that because we worked in health care, the ...
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Joe Walsh and the debt he didn't payMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - If Congressional candidate Joe Walsh was so hard up for money that he couldn't fulfill his obligation on a $300,000 mortgage, why was he able to afford to rent an $860,0...
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Obama barking up the wrong treeMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - It was right before the Super Bowl on Feb. 7 that President Obama reopened the health are reform issue, after it was all about jobs-jobs-jobs these past few weeks, by en...
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Video poker won't solve anythingMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - The Daily Herald was right to put "Fee for rejecting video poker?" on its front page. But I'd like to challenge more than video poker. Unfortunately, the name of the spo...
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Frank, Dodd must not own condosMar 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Once again, our federal government is showing its total ignorance as to how to get the country out of the real estate depression. Recently, HUD and FHA have issued restr...
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Obama's take on proper procedureMar 05, 2010 10:00 pm - I was recently appraised of a term which had not crossed my path in some time. The term is "parliamentary procedures." I would surmise that this is the golden gun that t...