Northbrook Opinion
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Rand Paul, tea party lack substanceMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - After listening to the actual interviews given by Rand Paul (as opposed to the experts educated by listening to the 10 second sound bites on the news program of their ch...
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Drop out of Senate raceMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Richard Blumenthal is the Connecticut Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate next November. However, a series of false statements and lies about having served in Vietnam...
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Story of waste belonged on Page 1May 27, 2010 11:00 pm - An excellent article on Illinois' All Kids $79.1 million health insurance program was published by the Daily Herald on May 12. The article reported on an audit of the pr...
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Intellectuals don't know everythingMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - I do not understand how you can add 35 million more people to health insurance and be able to save money. If I add two more people to my family and include them on my he...
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Use technology to solve energy issuesMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - What a disaster. An oil rig sinks into the Gulf of Mexico. Think of it. The environmental repercussions of an oil spill are endless. The environmental harm caused by car...
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Learn from senseless killing of BowzerMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - We were deeply troubled by the recent shooting of Bowzer the beagle-cocker mix in Des Plaines by a police officer because it seems so utterly senseless. We immediately i...
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It's time we went nuclearMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - I read the letter about "Spill Baby Spill" and the oil companies. It is sad what Big Oil and Old King Coal are trying to tell us. But I was very happy to read one of the...
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Pagano made Metra accessible to allMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing as a former plaintiff in the lawsuit once filed against Metra for lack of accessibility to disabled people, and as one of the co-chairs of the former Metra ...
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We must continue fighting al-QaidaMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Our withdrawal from Iraq seems to be a certainty. A mess has been created that will take decades for the Iraqis to solve. Our presence will not change that either way so...
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The link between lizards, environmentMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - I read with some amusement the article in the Daily Herald on May 14 regarding the threat to the world's population of lizards due to global warming. According to scient...