Lake County Opinion
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Middle class depends on unions' strengthMay 05, 2015 1:00 am - Criticism of unions seems to be misdirected. The process of collective bargaining, or unions if you will, is necessary in our society to maintain a level field of benefi...
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Letter to Editor: IRS is corrupt as politicsMay 02, 2015 5:55 am - Where was the IRS ... what were they doing all this time? "After a Reuters review found errors in how the (Clinton) foundation reported government donors on its taxes, ...
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Letter to editor: Rauner needs to worry about own problemsMay 01, 2015 6:25 am - Governor Rauner needs to lead by example looking at his own "house" to help get the state out of debt. The state government (aka his house) is overflowing with departme...
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Letter to editor: Helping, hurting animalsMay 01, 2015 6:01 am - A recent Daily Herald page 1 story featured a woman devoted to caring for adopted, aging cocker spaniels. From experience, I know older pets require attention, care and ...
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Build more suburban economies of scaleMay 01, 2015 5:33 am - You don't see many big prestige projects being dreamed up by local government these days. Those generally take a walloping at the polls, as we saw during the April 7 el...
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Editorial: Changing times, technologies give cause to renew debate about sprinkler mandatesApr 24, 2015 1:00 am - The people living in the Barrington Hills home that went up in flames last weekend were, by all accounts. lucky. Nobody died. Had the house fire started in the middle of...
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Tax exodus is draining IllinoisApr 23, 2015 1:00 am - I'm readying the move to join the nearly 100,000 others who have already moved to Florida in 2014 alone. I reside in Lake County, Illinois, in the bedroom community of ...
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Thanks, and a promise to serve thoughtfullyApr 20, 2015 11:00 pm - The "Voice of Long Grove" slate of trustee-elect/candidates, Bill Jacob, Stan Borys and Michael Sarlitto, would like to express sincere gratitude to all the residents an...
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Thanks for your support of D214 - and usApr 20, 2015 5:00 am - We want to thank all of the citizens of District 214 who voted for us and High School District 214 on April 7. District 214 has long history of providing students of our...
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Limit community colleges to two yearsApr 18, 2015 1:00 am - Cuts in state aid and tax caps are forcing Illinois community college tuition increases. Diverting property taxes to four-year nursing, dental hygiene and applied techno...