Port Barrington Opinion
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Columnist gave Dobbs unfair rapDec 12, 2009 10:00 pm - I have watched Lou Dobbs for years and feel the accusation by Mr. Navarrette that Dobbs is a Latino-phobe is wrong. Dobbs always made a distinction between legal and ill...
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Legalize marijuana to ease sufferingDec 11, 2009 10:00 pm - From cancer victims to the person who lives with severe chronic pain, the words "pain and suffering " remind us of some distress that we lived with or through. Someone y...
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State plane abuse is irritatingDec 07, 2009 10:00 pm - The Nov. 23 Daily Herald article about the fleet of planes our "dedicated, cost saving" Springfield officials have to use at their whim really irritated us. It was just ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Kane Co. weathers tough timesDec 04, 2009 10:00 pm - When times get tough: It's been a rough road these last few months in Kane County government, in which the marriage of county board members and the county's elected depa...
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Amid tragedy, lessons in goodnessDec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - We know all too well that some of the news in our towns has been much too disturbing lately. There's the Streamwood mother who police say gunned her car and pinned a 17-...
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Urge Manzullo to support health billDec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - It is with much sadness that I have learned that Congressman Manzullo has caved in to the severe pressure of special interest groups by not voting for this recent histor...
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Health care system is killing usNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - The health care system in this country is broken and the big insurance companies are making a lot of money that should be going to save Americans. Why is it so hard for ...
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Health care plan penalizes workersNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - I feel that it is wrong to ask the American citizens, who paid into Medicare their whole working life, to pay half the cost to fund the bill through benefit cuts. At the...
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Flu vaccine debacle shows folly in reformNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - I read with interest today's concern by the Illinois chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics that the Illinois Department of Health and/or the state of Illinois is...
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Listen to the average joesNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Thank God for the representatives who listen to the everyday "Joe" and voted for H.R. 3962. Too long we have been in the stranglehold of the insurance industry. We try t...