Kane County Opinion
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Where would salutes be if we had a draft?Nov 16, 2015 11:00 pm - On Veteran's Day, I wore my Air Force hat to the health club and did my full three hour work-out. Not bad for a guy almost 70. Then I listened about all the salutes to v...
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Give Dems credit for health care woesNov 16, 2015 11:00 pm - Cecile Powell's Nov. 5 letter, "What if men were having babies," made several erroneous assertions. She claimed "men were in charge of women's reproductive health care" ...
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Life saved by gun not Page 1 newsNov 16, 2015 11:00 pm - In the Daily Herald Nov. 3 on Page 8 is a small article about a attempted robbery at a store on Chicago's southwest side. The robber, a masked man entered the store dis...
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Writer never taught in inner-city schoolsNov 15, 2015 11:00 pm - In a recent letter to the editor it was stated that the teacher should handle classroom disipline. It is apparent to me as a retired inner city school teacher that the w...
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Mistaken premise on transgender studentNov 15, 2015 11:00 pm - The U.S. Department of Education has issued a letter informing District 211 that it has 30 days to "conform with the office's understanding of Title IX requirements or f...
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Racial overtones in Carson accusations?Nov 15, 2015 11:00 pm - A number of media sources have accused candidate Dr. Ben Carson of lying about events in his past. These accusations clearly have racial overtones. Oh wait, he's a cons...
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Look at victims of state budget impasseNov 14, 2015 11:00 pm - And so we begin a sixth month without a state budget because our so-called leaders put their personal and political agendas ahead of their sworn duty and continue to bic...
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Maybe budget is affecting all of usNov 14, 2015 11:00 pm - We are now moving into the fifth month without a state budget. The governor released funds to keep schools open because it is the responsibility of the state to fund sch...
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Gun owners won't give up their rightsNov 14, 2015 11:00 pm - According to the thinking of Dan Halvorsen in a Nov. 12 letter, driving a car around a barricade and plowing into a crowd of people is OK since it was just "an accident....
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A way to recoup Gliniewicz misdeeds?Nov 14, 2015 12:00 am - I don't want to sound like scrooge, but I would hope that Fox Lake would use Officer Gliniewicz's pension to at least help to pay some of ridiculous cost of his suicide ...