Lake County Opinion
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Give D15 parents a better seat at tableAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - Emotions have been running high among parents in Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 for the past year, as the controversy over whether to impose a late s...
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Numbers show fire plan is irresponsibleAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - In 1992, (Barrington) Village President Ted Forsberg convinced his board that starting a firefighter pension would cost “$4 million in four years.” He used this claim to...
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Signage overkill at Lake ArlingtonAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - In response to the recent and most regrettable tragedy at Lake Arlington, the park district’s new policy to have riders and walkers travel in opposite direction is a sim...
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Editorial: District adds enthusiasm to ‘back-to-school’ planAug 13, 2013 8:10 am - Every school district wants to get off to a strong, positive start to the new academic year. It’s important — no, it’s critical — that teachers, administrators, parents ...
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Follow-up needed on latest scandalsAug 13, 2013 5:00 am - President Obama has found a new slogan — phony scandals — to distract Americans from the real scandals in his administration. The IRS’s Lois Lerner has already acknowled...
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Editorial misstated position on disabledAug 13, 2013 5:00 am - I am most disturbed that the Daily Herald would inaccurately state in an editorial that I wrote Arlington Heights in May 2010 to oppose a proposed site for housing for t...
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Immigration reform can improve nationAug 12, 2013 5:00 am - Immigration reform is a jobs issue as well as a social issue. We often say our nation is a nation of immigrants, but our legal system is restricting them of contributing...
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Editorial: Colin Powell’s message of perpetual optimismAug 11, 2013 5:00 am - Ask friends to list the attributes of a leader, and they’ll offer up a variety of characteristics: A leader has vision, magnetism, creativity, communication skills, cour...
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Editorial wrong, unfair to villageAug 11, 2013 5:00 am - I object to the Daily Herald’s reference to Buffalo Grove in the editorial on Aug. 8 regarding housing for the disabled. Whether intended or not, the editorial cast our ...
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The SoapboxAug 10, 2013 12:27 pm - Keeping perspective: In an editorial referencing a Buffalo Grove letter about a proposed supportive housing project in Arlington Heights, we failed to note that, that pr...