Kane County Opinion
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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...
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Taxes needed to educate childrenSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - I feel compelled to reply to the letter from William Hallow (Sept. 15). Who paid the taxes to educate him and his children if he has any? We pay property taxes in order...