Lake County Opinion
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Township critics miss the big pictureSep 15, 2015 1:00 am - In your Sept. 9 editorial "Spend township aid funds on needy, not salaries," you determine whether a township is doing a good job based on the ratio of dollars paid out ...
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Coverage reminds us of police dedicationSep 14, 2015 1:00 am - Last week following the shooting of the Fox Lake police officer, Burt Constable wrote an outstanding article about how the tragedy was being used on social media as a re...
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School handled lockdown crisis wellSep 12, 2015 1:00 am - While Fox Lake and its surrounding communities are grieving the loss of Officer Gliniewicz, I wanted to take a moment to offer some positive thoughts in the midst of...
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The act Trump would followSep 12, 2015 1:00 am - In response to Shirley Witt on Mr. Trump's rough edges: If he is elected, we can supply him with a Teleprompter, a Blackberry and bowing-to-the-enemy lessons. It has w...
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Thanks and shame for arbitration votesSep 10, 2015 1:00 am - I want to publicly thank my state representative, Barb Wheeler, for her vote to not override the governor's veto of SB1229. This bill would have stripped the taxpayers o...
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Editorial: Spend township aid funds on needy, not salariesSep 08, 2015 11:00 pm - We've seen first hand the good township general assistance programs can do. They're sometimes the front line of relief for people who run into serious financial trouble ...
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Catchers also must play the positionSep 08, 2015 1:00 am - With all due respect, Scot Gregor's Aug. 29 article applauding the White Sox catcher, Tyler Flowers, misses a major point. As a former catcher myself, Flowers cannot th...
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Thank you, Cohen, for a-bomb columnSep 08, 2015 1:00 am - Thank you Richard Cohen for your column in the Daily Herald about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the best column for "August" I have read in 70 years. Every August since...
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Socialism, democracy not mutually exclusiveSep 07, 2015 1:00 am - This is in response to the letter from Marie Kafka of Rolling Meadows in the Sept. 2 Daily Herald, in which she states that socialism is totally contrary to our way of g...
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'Officer Down' site a sad reminder of painful lossSep 05, 2015 12:00 pm - 1,060. That's how many police officers in Illinois died in the line of duty, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a volunteer-driven website that lists casualtie...