Kane County Opinion
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Moral standards are key to lifeSep 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Every individual must have some level of morality to live a happy and successful life. Whether your standards of morality stem from religion or from the way you were rai...
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Soapbox: Killer state lapse?Sep 28, 2007 11:00 pm - A fatal three-vehicle crash Wednesday at the dangerous intersection of Shales Parkway and Route 20 in Elgin left traffic snarled over much of the city for much of the da...
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Gun play, moves old phenomenaSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I'm sorry to report it, but gun violence in Elgin is here to stay. A sad fact of American life is that when crowded cities and towns begin to age, they become inundated ...
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Politics behind this Kane performanceSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Why does Kane County Board Chairwoman Karen McConnaughay use $20,000 of our hard-earned tax dollars during election season to promote water resource management when furt...
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Shanahan should get his job backSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - We are writing this letter in support of Dan Shanahan, past director of programming for Batavia Access Television. We have watched with dismay the erosion of our civil l...
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U.S. must follow international lawSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I write because the Bush administration once again is seeking to make the administration, the U.S. military and the corporate mercenary armies operating in Iraq and arou...
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Divergent stories about religion and sexuality needed to be toldSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Anytime it takes more than a year to get something in the newspaper, you really hope it was worth the trouble. So if the virulence -- and diversity -- of opinion on the ...
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Smoking not illegal, and not the worstSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - In response to Helen Clark's letter concerning consideration of an exception to the smoking ban rule for casinos, I have to first say I am not now a smoker and haven't b...
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Evolution isn't really scientific, eitherSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I have read some letters questioning Lisa Szatkowski's beating a dead horse in her Sept. 17 letter because she does advocate the teaching of creationism in the public sc...
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Flu vaccine stories need more balanceSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I noticed in the Daily Herald the first seasonal article promoting the flu vaccine. Again there was no balanced reporting regarding the levels of mercury contained in th...