Lake County Opinion
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Don’t politicize Chicago murdersAug 25, 2012 4:40 am - On Aug. 6, The Daily Herald printed a letter to the editor by James A. Wagner of Barrington that is irrational, uninformed, misguided, and slightly prejudiced. Mr. Wagne...
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Editorial: Wildlife refuge will be boon for ’burbsAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - After the Black Hawk War, in the early 1830s when white settlers pushed into the Fox River Valley, they encountered a rolling landscape carved by a glacier. The area was...
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Get in the game; reclaim governmentAug 24, 2012 4:40 am - Career politicians bank with smug arrogance on the complacency and willful ignorance of the voting public, considering most of us to be easily herded, gullible sheep. We...
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Openness in an hour of pain is a gift to rest of usAug 23, 2012 6:27 am - This column is my expression of thanks to all those people who, in the midst of the deepest suffering, take some time out to describe the source of their grief with a lo...
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Editorial: Even small projects merit breaks, if ...Aug 23, 2012 6:23 am - The village of Fox Lake recently approved $150,000 in tax incentives for a Thornton’s gas station. Buffalo Grove is looking at tax incentives for a Fresh Farms grocery m...
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Dold an advocate for educationAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - I was happy to see Congressman Robert Dold was endorsed by the NEA-IEA, a teachers union, recently. As a high school student, I’m happy there are people in government li...
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Democrats’ ad was short on factsAug 21, 2012 5:00 am - It was bad enough that Harry Reid made comments about Mitt Romney on the Senate floor with no evidence at all. But now a Democratic National Committee PAC ran an ad from...
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President had his chance on economyAug 21, 2012 5:00 am - The country is experiencing out-of-control home foreclosures and skyrocketing unemployment numbers, and President Obama has this to say: ”There will be setbacks.” Obama ...
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Limit postretirement pay not just for teachersAug 21, 2012 5:00 am - Thank you for your July 23 editorial “Restrict public pensions to retirees” (July 23), which exposed a flaw in the local government pension system. Police officers and m...
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Day as a Knight a great time for kidsAug 20, 2012 5:00 am - As a parent and grandparent, I am disappointed in your paper for not putting an ad or an article for the Day as a Knight, the Prospect High School Marching Knights’ fun ...