Lake County Opinion
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Save Lake Michigan; Boycott BP todayAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - BP -- another magnificent gift from Great Britain, as bad as George W. Bush and his former rubber stamp, Tony Blair. While our "get re-elected at all costs" state, feder...
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Residents oppose off-track bettingAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Off-track betting in Mundelein? I hope the trustees who agree with this aren't fooling themselves that people in Mundelein are "pro off track betting." The people I've s...
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Extension thanks fair volunteersAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - "The mission of the Lake County Extension Foundation Inc., is to build resources to enhance research-based educational programs of the University of Illinois Extension w...
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Village officials at fault for pool woesAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - In response to your Aug. 13 article on the Hawthorn Woods Aquatic Center, the mayor and village trustees should stop blaming others and look in the mirror! For the idea ...
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Soapbox: This aud-it do it in Dist. 303Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - A very good idea has emerged in the St. Charles school district, where officials have instructed auditors doing their annual work to break down and report specifically h...
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Tough, consistent sentences neededAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - For the third time in the last week I have read articles in which three people had killed someone while driving drunk. All had other DUIs on their records. The first one...
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Skip 'race game' on illegal immigrationAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - The immigration debate in Carpentersville is becoming simply ridiculous. Residents of the village who are attempting to stop crimes linked with the flood of illegal alie...
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Soapbox: The new Randhurst; what's bugging you?Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - The Randhurst Shopping Center has been such an integral part of the Northwest suburbs for decades. Here's hoping that plans to build it anew as Randhurst Village are suc...
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Soapbox: Sickening swims; benefits of publicity?Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Anybody but us think it shouldn't take an Illinois Department of Public Health warning to know it isn't wise to let pets cavort in human swimming pools? Yet some pet lov...
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All pit votes should have been 'no'Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - All pit votes should have been 'no' Congratulations to the three zoning appeals board members who voted "no" at the July 26 public meeting. My question to the three who ...