Kendall County Opinion
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Editorial on unions was off baseMar 04, 2011 10:00 pm - I was saddened by Feb. 22’s main editorial “Striking a balance with labor in Wisconsin.” In it, the Herald’s editorial board maintains that “government seems insistent u...
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It all starts with tort reformMar 03, 2011 1:00 am - Several letters in the Daily Herald lately have urged support for the disastrous federal takeover of American health care. The purported original goal was to provide hea...
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State government: A Tale of Two StatesMar 03, 2011 1:00 am - Watching how differently Illinois and Wisconsin are dealing with their respective deficit crises makes me wish someone would write a Charles Dickens type novel, and call...
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Public workers’ sense of entitlementMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - I’m sitting here in disbelief that, once again, the sense of entitlement by public workers is over-the-top. As taxpayers, we should appreciate our police, fireman, teac...
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Proud to be an American citizenMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - A little over two years into President Obama’s first term as president he has helped to get our country back on track by accomplishing: Ending combat operations in Iraq;...
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Death penalty not effective, expensiveMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - The problem with capital punishment is not the morality of it, but its ineffectiveness. The argument that death penalty deters crime is based purely upon hypothetical mu...
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Candidate session: What you say here won't stay hereMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Actual excerpts of e-mail discussion among Daily Herald staffers. Names redacted to protect the guilty and to avoid getting ahead of the story. Editor 1: “As several of ...
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Handing all over to corporate interstsMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Most depressing is the news in Wisconsin and other states threating collective bargaining rights. State legislators years and years irresponsibly did not fund their shar...
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Maybe she should run as Lisa ByrnesMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - I saw in the Daily Herald that the RTA has hired Illinois House Leader Mike Madigan’s son-in law to the top lobbyist job. Is this the start of the “Stroger Rule’ of pol...
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Fox News not so fair and balancedMar 02, 2011 10:00 pm - I tried to watch Fox News with a neutral attitude. I have heard so much about Bill O'Reilly and his “balanced” approach that I figured it was time to check it out. How F...