Island Lake Opinion
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Incumbents key to Stevenson successMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - By all measures, Stevenson High School is among the top educational institutions in the country, the only public high school in Illinois to win four U.S. Department of E...
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Barrington Hills candidates sign Civility CovenantMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - An e-mail has been circulating the village concerning civility during the campaign for the village board, containing a Civility Covenant that all of the candidates were ...
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Choose wisely; the future of Barrington Hills is in voters’ handsMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - April 5 is an important election in Barrington Hills. Several past elections were rife with negativism and exaggerations; things haven’t changed much. Again some elected...
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Sitting BG clerk is ’awesome,’ says colleagueMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - I am appalled and shocked at the content I read on Rob Sherman’s (candidate for Buffalo Grove Village Clerk) website. The accusations and lies about Jan Sirabian couldn’...
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Barrington Hills voters have job to doMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - The April 5 election for four Barrington Hills village trustees is about choosing positive thinking, hardworking volunteer leaders who will listen to us, leaders committ...
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No excuses for abortionMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - I read the letter in Fence Post, dated Feb. 21, by Gaylon Alcaraz, executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, and it sickens me that there are so many people out t...
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Don’t give Abboud a free hand in Barrington HillsMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Earnest Benn wrote, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” Barring...
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Creationism has no place in schoolMar 11, 2011 2:00 am - As a former science teacher in High School Districts 214 and 113 and a former young earth creationist, I find it disconcerting that there are school board candidates who...
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Hearings on terrorism threat are neededMar 10, 2011 11:00 pm - Republican Congressman Peter King has started hearings to explore the seriousness of the homegrown Islamic terror threat in America. The Democrats, extreme left, and med...
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Distracted driving dangers are realMar 10, 2011 11:00 pm - Monday’s Daily Herald letter from Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, addresses the dangers inherent in distracted driving. As an emergency physician and father, th...