Lake County Opinion
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E-cigs are good alternative to cigarettesOct 24, 2013 5:00 am - Electric cigarettes (e-cigs) are an alternative to real cigarettes, not a gateway to them. I smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years. Almost four years ago, I...
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Power plant is a hazardOct 24, 2013 5:00 am - I am concerned about the Midwest Generation coal-powered plant on the lakefront in Waukegan. The company entered bankruptcy about a year ago. Furthermore based on the d...
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Editorial: The benefits of video visits for jail inmatesOct 23, 2013 5:00 am - “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” was TV cop Tony Baretta’s chilling warning in the 1970s of the penalty for breaking the law. Incarceration, whether it’s a ...
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It’s a shame to lose HelanderOct 23, 2013 5:00 am - I read with sadness the statement from longtime Lake County Clerk Willard Helander regarding her plans not to seek re-election next year. She cited state efforts to chan...
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Red-light cameras not about safetyOct 22, 2013 5:00 am - I was greeted by one of those dreaded red-light violation notices from the village of East Dundee today. Guilty as charged. The black-and-white nature of these violation...
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‘Affordable’ doesn’t mean simpleOct 22, 2013 5:00 am - If “Obama Care”, better known as the “ Affordable Care Act,” is so great and beneficial, then why are we advised to purchase “The Obama Care Survival Guide” for $19.99? ...
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The young don’t understand economic basicsOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - It seems to me that there are things at work here preventing our young people from grasping the fact that this one issue of economics (tremendous public debt) could make...
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Family will feel loss of Dominick’sOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - When Mundelein lost Blockbuster a few years ago, I survived by finding movies to rent at other places like the library. When we lost Best Buy and Applebee’s, it was a l...
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More than one way to wreck nationOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - The skirmishing continues in Washington. Shifting demands of the Tea/Republican Party make it clear that what is in fact demanded is the resignation of the current occu...
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What’s fair in D23 is true for citizens, tooOct 21, 2013 5:00 am - As the District 23 teachers ask for a fair contract, don’t we also have to ask what’s a fair wage for the teachers; i.e. how does their current situation compare with th...