Kane County Opinion
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Banks’ greed won’t abate without ‘help’May 22, 2012 1:00 am - Banks claim they must have immense size in order to meet the liquidity needs of their largest customers. However, risking financial collapse is the price the country is ...
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Glen Ellyn shows its generosityMay 22, 2012 1:00 am - The Glen Ellyn Food Pantry would like to publicly thank all the members of our community who made the first Spring Fling fundraiser a great success. Local vendors came t...
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Obama pandered on same sex marriageMay 22, 2012 1:00 am - President Obama said he approves of same sex marriages. The “reverend” Jesse Jackson adamantly agreed. (What kind of reverend agrees with things that go directly against...
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Inspect wording of pension amendmentMay 21, 2012 3:08 pm - This fall Illinois voters will have the opportunity to vote on a constitutional amendment that will make it harder for state and local governments to sweeten public empl...
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Constitutional rights not a voting matterMay 21, 2012 3:08 pm - Proving that the “new” South is not a whole lot different from the old, North Carolina became the last former Confederate state to approve a constitutional amendment tha...
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Voter ID only a small inconvenienceMay 21, 2012 3:08 pm - What I find “shameful and un-American” James Prescott (Fence Post, May 10) is your assumption that voter fraud is immaterial; that elections are unaffected by fraudulent...
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Praise for students’ anti-bullying stanceMay 21, 2012 1:15 pm - Students at Hoffman Estates High School appear to have more savvy than the adults in charge (“Hoffman H.S. questions T-shirts’ intent,” May 12 Daily Herald). Standing up...
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Domestic reserves could solve oil problemsMay 21, 2012 1:15 pm - I just found out that something called the “Green River Formation,” which is on mainly unoccupied government land in portions of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, contains oil...
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Check the facts on that tax assertionMay 21, 2012 1:15 pm - This letter is in response to the last paragraph of the May 8 letter by George Blinick. Mr. Blinick states that “the mega rich pay a lesser percentage on their income th...
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Editorial: Road to trust rough for Lake County law enforcementMay 21, 2012 5:00 am - It happened yet again. Last week, prosecutors in the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office dropped sexual assault charges against a man who has been in prison ...