Vernon Hills Opinion
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Trustees serve D128 wellJun 18, 2017 1:00 am - I served on the Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 school board for eight years. Ellen Mauer is an outstanding school administrator. District 128 is...
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License gun dealers to increase safetyMay 27, 2017 1:00 am - The Illinois House has the opportunity to make our state a little safer by passing the Gun Dealer Licensing Act. This bill will encourage better business practices for g...
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Editorial: $25 million questions remain as tollway set to again study Route 53 extensionMay 25, 2017 1:00 am - Where's the Lake County buy-in? And where does this all end? These are our questions as the Illinois tollway board votes today whether to spend $25 million to study buil...
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Keep gun shops away from schoolsMay 12, 2017 1:00 am - Your article of May 5 described a proposal from a business to sell firearms and offer a shooting range at a building along Route 45, less than 250 feet from a day care. ...
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Editorial: Drug culture video is important watching for suburbsMay 08, 2017 11:00 pm - Ethan Deardorff is 20. He's been sober for three years. Think about that. He was in need of help at age 17. And he knows so many others who were or still are in need of ...
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Nursing baccalaureate not needed at CLCApr 25, 2017 1:00 am - We read with interest the recent article "CLC backs proposal to offer 4-year nursing degree." We agree on the importance of offering the junior and senior year of a bacc...
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Legislative joblessnessApr 25, 2017 1:00 am - I recently read that the Illinois jobless rate has dropped below 5 percent. I'm curious if that figure includes our illustrious politicians in Springfield who haven't wo...
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Thanks to voters for supporting schoolsApr 18, 2017 1:00 am - On behalf of the D76 Parents' Referendum Committee, I'd like to thank the Diamond Lake School District 76 community for passing the school financing referendum on April ...
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Endorsement: Yes to address crowding at Hawthorn Elementary District 73Mar 22, 2017 1:00 am - Growing pains, already severe, appear to be a fact of life for the foreseeable future at Hawthorn Elementary District 73, based in Vernon Hills, so the district is comin...
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Thoughtful, balancedMar 20, 2017 1:00 am - In 2005 I wrote a letter to the Daily Herald in support of James Schultz, as a candidate for trustee of the village board of Vernon Hills, and I am once again proud to e...