Kane County Opinion
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Newspaper part of 'fugitive' problemAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Regarding the front page article Sunday about Elvira Arellano. I feel compelled to complain about your effort to idolize and victimize a person I consider to be an examp...
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Emotion, conflict help put life in budget storiesAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Budget stories always present a quandary for newspapers. On one hand, tracking how governments spend tax money is one of the most important things we do in a democracy....
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Stable ACT scores can't mask concernsAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Why are so few Illinois high school graduates prepared for basic college-level academics? And how can matters be improved? Those again emerge as the most important quest...
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Maybe Janet Reno could oust fugitiveAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Where's Janet Reno when you need her? Here we've got an illegal alien, Elvira Arellan, holed up in a church in Chicago, and no one seems to know how to extract her and d...
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This group earned pink slips, not raisesAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Only a governor operating in left field and a legislature operating in the financial twilight zone could subject Illinois residents to such governmental ineptitude as we...
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Blame, cause are two different issuesAug 13, 2007 11:00 pm - As a safety and health professional for more than 60 years, I can relate to Don Lindman's article, "Why do we want to assign blame for tragedies?" Instead of trying to ...
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No need to raise taxes on gasolineAug 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Regarding Mary Warren's Fence Post opinion, while Mary was at least correct that we need better efficiency in our vehicles, she couldn't be more wrong on the rest of her...
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Silly headline, even sillier argumentsAug 13, 2007 11:00 pm - The Aug. 11 Associated Press article titled "Are Monster Trucks Unsafe?" was the most silly thing that I read in your paper that day. The real issue is not whether the t...
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Forest preserve not right for OlympicsAug 13, 2007 11:00 pm - I am deeply concerned about the proposal to have the 2016 Summer Olympics' equestrian events in the Lakewood Preserve in Lake County. Forest preserves were charted to "p...
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Experience, not ads, sets behaviorAug 13, 2007 11:00 pm - The article, "Brand loyalty at age 4?" (Aug. 7) lacks critical logic. The editors of the Daily Herald obviously want flash over substance. The article's "expert" states ...