Lake County Opinion
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Remember Irish on Independence DayJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - As July Fourth approaches, Americans should know that Irish participation in the American Revolution and helped make American independence a reality. One must wonder why...
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Link is right about traffic camerasJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - I find the article on May 20 about cameras to watch and catch speeders very upsetting! I do not very often agree with Senator Link, but this time I do, and I find the co...
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Saturday SoapboxJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Enjoy summer in the suburbs: We have nothing against the Taste of Chicago or Summerfest in Milwaukee. They're fabulous events. But you're missing something if you don't ...
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Wake up and smell the Obama effectJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Excuse me friends and neighbors, but I have been taking jabs at Obama for almost a year now - the effect has been a relatively unimpressed "huh?" We have an individual i...
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Media too soft on SotomayorJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Sonia Sotomayor's accomplishments are to be commended. Lifting herself up from poverty to becoming a Supreme Court nominee is the American dream come true. But her story...
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This is worst time for tax increaseJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - As a voter and member of Americans for Prosperity, I ask our Illinois state representative and senators to vote NO on any and all tax increase proposals presented to the...
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Same old politics plague IllinoisJun 25, 2009 11:00 pm - All financial solutions are phrased as the ever popular and politically correct, "cuts need to be made!" (Cuts, in whose district? Every citizen would approve any cut th...
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In light of murder, is it really pro-life?Jun 25, 2009 11:00 pm - In his Fence Post letter last Saturday entitled "Choice of words shows bias in media", Ed Smetana raises a valid point. The media should depict both sides of the abortio...
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Don't govern by convenienceJun 25, 2009 11:00 pm - I was struck by a paraphrase of our fill-in Governor Quinn. He states in part that "As long as I'm governor, we're not going to have a convenient approach to the budget...
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Gay rights is not a civil rights issueJun 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Ms. Jedlinski, in her letter of June 7, is totally wrong in the idea that gay and lesbian behavior is a civil rights issue. It is not. Gays and lesbians have the same r...