Round Lake Park Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: Working togetherDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - Prairie Crossing Charter School has had its share of problems in 2007. Board infighting, hostility between a board member and the staff, and ongoing money trouble made i...
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Iowa series put presidential politics in suburban contextDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - We know what's happening in Iowa can be relevant in the suburbs and has connections to suburban interests. I often think of the Daily Herald in a phrase similar to the c...
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Santa came dressed in nubuck with tickets for BlagojevichesDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Because wiretapping is illegal without a court order, we can only imagine the phone call between Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Sen. James DeLeo (D-Ticketmaster). Blagojevich:...
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Lake Co. soap boxDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Welcome Jody Ware, an educator from northwest Illinois, was named Mundelein High School's new superintendent this week. She'll start in July 2008, at a time when adminis...
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Report Card results: Good, but familiar problems persistDec 12, 2007 10:00 pm - We continue to score a respectable B overall, but the areas in which we fare least well remain the same. It is a source of both encouragement and concern for us that th...
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We need more info on own police forceDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - At a special meeting of the village board on Dec. 1, our Hainesville mayor emphatically stated, "We will have our own police cars on the street by Feb. 10," when our pol...
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Soapbox: ThanksDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Hats off to the Boy Scout troop at St. Francis de Sales Church in Lake Zurich for their work to recondition bicycles and give them to needy families this weekend. This y...
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The good news John Drury never told you aboutDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - For a man whose bread always seemed to be buttered with cold, hard facts, anchorman John Drury was nourished by a much softer spread in the last 18 years of his life. La...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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Thread of light runs through dark stories on foreclosure crisisNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - No one takes pleasure in seeing unforeseen circumstances dishevel the lives of families. Yet, these stories can generate something more than sympathy. A fairly simple ma...