Port Barrington Opinion
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Editorial: Wildlife refuge will be boon for ’burbsAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - After the Black Hawk War, in the early 1830s when white settlers pushed into the Fox River Valley, they encountered a rolling landscape carved by a glacier. The area was...
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Editorial: Turnaround at Lake County Fair encouragingAug 14, 2012 5:00 am - The attendance figures for the 84th annual Lake County Fair, which ended a couple of weeks ago, won’t knock anyone’s socks off. A total of 91,548 visitors, up about 2.8 ...
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Don’t raise taxes for MCCAug 09, 2012 4:40 am - I have read several articles recently about MCC’s perceived need to expand. The big impression I came away with is that the growth is not going to happen and this white ...
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Editorial: A precaution about pets during the dog daysJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - While out running errands, you’ve probably seen a dog or cat locked in a car waiting for its owner to return. If it was a warm, sunny day, maybe you were concerned. If t...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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Get to know Bill FosterJun 29, 2012 4:40 am - It’s unfortunate that Stephen DeFillippis in his June 23 letter to the editor has formed an opinion about Bill Foster based on a brief article in the Daily Herald. If he...
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Foster wrong on Dodd-Frank billJun 23, 2012 4:40 am - In the June 19 edition of the Daily Herald, 11th Congressional District candidate Bill Foster pushes the Democratic Party message by suggesting that the Dodd-Frank bill ...
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Despite shaky start our kids surprise usJun 03, 2012 4:40 am - Forty-plus years ago my generation journeyed triumphantly to Woodstock for a collective temper tantrum borne of free love, destructive drug use and a universal contempt ...
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Obama’s people rewriting historyJun 02, 2012 4:40 am - You’re so vain ... Mr. President, you probably think this is about you. Don’t you? Don’t you? The president’s narcissistic self-insertion into official presidential biog...
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Feed middle class; grow economyMay 31, 2012 4:40 am - What happens if you cut taxes or otherwise increase the wealth of the upper 20 percent or more? Since they already have enough for all the gadgets a posh lifestyle can u...