Lake County Opinion
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Stop Rte. 53 plan once and for allJun 20, 2015 1:00 am - The new Illinois Tollway chairman, Bob Schillerstrom, in a June 8 Daily Herald article said the $1.9 billion dollar shortfall for the Route 53 extension might require a ...
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Housing agency didn't hide PADS projectJun 17, 2015 1:00 am - In response to the June 9 editorial "PADS, housing authority failed to trust public about homeless project," I disagree with the position that the project was handled po...
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Kirk paying for working with DurbinJun 17, 2015 1:00 am - The Daily Herald's news article on June 5 sates "Durbin backs Duckworth for Senate." Well Sen. Kirk, did you learn a lesson yet? What lesson is that? Never trust a De...
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Buffalo Grove is wasting our moneyJun 15, 2015 5:00 am - The village of Buffalo Grove wasting our money. In the late 1980s the village started a town center at Buffalo Grove and Lake Cook roads. It never worked out, all that t...
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PADS project needed a better solutionJun 15, 2015 1:00 am - I appreciate PADS and their initiatives to help those in need; however, I did not endorse the proposed use of Midlothian Manor in Lake Zurich to house chronically homele...
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How to narrow the skills gapJun 15, 2015 1:00 am - It seems that we continually hear of good-paying jobs that go unfilled. Are these reports true? In an economy with slow growth, can jobs really go begging? The sad answe...
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Editorial: More innovation from community colleges, NIUJun 14, 2015 11:00 pm - Community colleges may still have a way to go before establishing their own four-year degree programs, but five suburban community colleges took a step last week that es...
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Rauner making people pay for his failuresJun 13, 2015 1:00 am - Gov. Rauner, who blithely offered himself as a panacea to the ills of the people of Illinois, is responding to his own failures to navigate the legislative system of our...
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Did robbed shop have an alarm?Jun 13, 2015 1:00 am - Regarding the Beach Park robbery, I find it amazing that the gun shop didn't have a burglar alarm. Or perhaps it just wasn't turned on. Maybe if there was an alarm, th...
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The Soapbox: Suburban talent, Schaumburg treehouses, a special graduation and moreJun 13, 2015 1:00 am - Yes, the suburbs have talent: The contestants have been chosen and 20 acts will be competing in this year's edition of Suburban Chicago's Got Talent. Good luck to ...