Lake County Opinion
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How bad is Gov. Romney’s amnesia?Jul 13, 2012 4:42 pm - Romneycare, in Massachusetts, is the model used for Obamacare, and now the Romney campaign hates it. When former Gov. Romney lists the provisions of his “new” health ca...
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Legal gay marriage would be a mistakeJul 10, 2012 5:00 am - Little surprise in the Herald’s endorsement of gay marriage. The past few weeks have contained many articles favoring same. The real stretch is their claim that without ...
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Lessons learned in golf games with DadJul 10, 2012 5:00 am - As I anxiously sit on the precipice between being college student and a working man, I find my eyes opening to what my future may hold and what my past has taught. This ...
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Editorial: No room for confidentiality in public dealsJul 09, 2012 6:54 pm - The concern for confidentiality in some employment relationships is understandable, especially when things don’t work out as planned. But when it involves a government j...
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Know what will happen to MedicareJul 09, 2012 9:57 am - We have been hearing a lot about the constitutionality of Obamacare, but nobody has given us the whole picture. What are “they” afraid of? Maybe one of those items is th...
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Vote Republican and continue the messJul 09, 2012 9:57 am - Have you ever seen anything like the sore loser Republicans, ever? From the 2008 election, when their dynamite McCain-Palin team got the old heave-ho, to the “Obamacare”...
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When life give you rising ocean levels . . .Jul 09, 2012 9:57 am - So I’m reading the Daily Herald, I think it was June 23. I see one headline that reads, “Drought covers 70 percent of Illinois.” And right next to it in the adjacent col...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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Editorial: Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotchaJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Permit us, please, to make this nonpartisan observation about the 8th District Congressional race between Rep. Joe Walsh of McHenry and Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estate...
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The SoapboxJul 07, 2012 5:00 am - Lots of money, nothing to show: Illinois received $39 million in grants to prepare to run health insurance exchanges required by the Affordable Care Act. Officials now s...