Lake County Opinion
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Time for ‘yes’ on budget dealDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - I am puzzled. Why can’t our elected officials (President, Senate and House) come to a compromise as to how we can balance the budget? In my home when the finances are “t...
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Early intervention needed to stop tragediesDec 26, 2012 4:00 am - I hate guns but know the reality is they won’t go away. Since guns will always be here, what you can do is twofold: 1) make it very difficult to get one and 2) anyone ca...
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Life is fragile, violence unacceptableDec 25, 2012 4:00 am - Those of us who work in emergency departments know all too well about the fragility of life. While the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., is in many ways unexplainable, the shee...
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Acts of kindness in memory of 26 victimsDec 24, 2012 4:00 am - Last week I had a most extraordinary experience. I was out running around at lunch and remembered I hadn’t eaten, yet so I decided to run through the drive-through at Mc...
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Medal of Honor earned, not “won”Dec 23, 2012 4:00 am - In the Dec. 18 paper, the obituary for Sen. Daniel Inouye states that “Inouye was a World War II hero and Medal of Honor winner ...” It should be noted that no one “wins...
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Thanks for support of ‘Shop with Cop’Dec 23, 2012 4:00 am - Since 1999, the Mundelein Police Department has worked with community members and business owners to make the holidays a little happier for local children through Shop w...
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Social Security surplus is illusionDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - Letter to the editor writer Bill Hartman offered up a suggestion on how best to save Medicare for future beneficiaries by emulating the funding mechanism used to support...
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Leadership Team, people behind it, simply inspiringDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - How about some words on a topic that might be inspirational as we close in on the Christmas holiday? For more than a decade, the Daily Herald has formally honored our hi...
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We should repeal Second AmendmentDec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Now is the time to repeal the Second Amendment and write reasonable gun laws I hate to be crass, but I am getting fed up with the superficial sorrow that the nation emo...
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The SoapboxDec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Still moving: The tragic case of Elgin High School teacher Carolyn Gilbert, spotlighted through Daily Herald reports, led to state legislation that should make teachers...