Kane County Opinion
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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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Troubled by ECC public safety, truck schoolsAug 14, 2012 4:40 am - The Burlington village board OK’d a conceptual plan for ECC’s vision of a regional public safety and sustainability facility. We the people voted to approve a $178 milli...
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Editorial: A road map to transparencyAug 07, 2012 5:00 am - When Lombard Village Trustee Peter Breen was elected in April 2011, he made transparency in village government a priority. It’s no wonder then that Lombard now is a mode...
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Relay For Life almost hits goalJul 29, 2012 4:40 am - On behalf of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Kane County committee, I would like to say “Wow!” Thanks to your support, Relay For Life of Kane County had 75...
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Letter to McConnaughayJul 29, 2012 4:00 am - Open letter to Kane County Board Chairman Karen McConnaughay: I can see firsthand that any citizen in the county that would dare at this critical economic juncture to qu...
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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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Ethics law would bring taxes downJul 08, 2012 4:40 am - Recently, I received my property tax bill, and like everyone else, I was shocked and disgusted by the fact that my property values had gone done by 30 percent and my tax...
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Editorial: Monitoring needed with drug program innovationJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - Change is a constant in criminal justice, and rightly so. Law enforcement officials and prosecutors who face funding cuts and pressure to keep crime stats low should be ...
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The ruling and the working classesJun 03, 2012 4:40 am - The May 27 edition of the Chicago Tribune featured two articles in the Business section that made me think of the Marxist principle of the struggle for power between the...
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Average pensioner left out in coldJun 02, 2012 4:40 am - For 30 years I worked at the Elgin Mental Health Center and paid the state for my retirement. It was not a well-paying job but I worked for a promised pension and health...