Kane County Opinion
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Beware costly scam to copy deedsSep 29, 2013 5:00 am - The Lake County Recorder’s Office has been flooded with phone calls asking about a letter regarding the deed to the caller’s home. It looks very official but the true p...
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Soapboxing on radical-turned-speaker Bill AyersSep 29, 2013 5:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is my Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly-stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shamel...
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SNAP program needs a dietSep 29, 2013 4:00 am - SNAP program needs a diet The time has come to rein in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program commonly known as food stamps. We are in the fifth year of a te...
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‘Fracking’ can harm our water supplySep 28, 2013 4:40 am - ‘Fracking’ can harm our water supply I’m writing in response to Mark Denzler, co-chair, GROW-IL, in his letter to the editor Sept. 16. In his letter he states a goo...
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Editorial: Truancy, heroin problems are intertwinedSep 27, 2013 5:00 am - If you read Sunday’s paper you may have seen two stories — one about Naperville’s unified attack on heroin use, the other about Kane County’s runaway truancy problem. Wh...
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Obamacare fight not about our healthSep 27, 2013 4:40 am - Obamacare fight not about our health Those seek to defend the current United States public health system by crippling the implementation of Obamacare should tell us...
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A big question after seeing Vietnam wallSep 27, 2013 4:40 am - A big question after seeing Vietnam wall I was there Sept. 19 when it exited off the tollway at Route 25 and parked at the Trout Park baseball area. I can’t explain...
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ECC has plenty for adults to learnSep 26, 2013 4:40 am - ECC has plenty for adults to learn There is a course “home repair” offered at Elgin Community College. It is seven classes on a Saturday morning. If enough people d...
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GOP ready to shut down governmentSep 26, 2013 4:40 am - The right-wingers in the U.S. House just voted to cut $40 billion from SNAP that helps feed people making less than $14,500 annually. In other words, the Republicans vot...
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Ayers’ past misdeeds grossly understatedSep 25, 2013 5:00 am - To limit William Ayers’ infamy to “setting off a few small bombs ... in protest of the Vietnam War” in your Sept. 21 article on Elgin Community College’s decision to inv...