Lake County Opinion
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‘Stone Soup’ witty, insightfulMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - I resent Phillip Nagle calling “Stone Soup” a mindless insult (Fence Post, May 10). As a retired female teacher I find it witty in a subtle way and very insightful into ...
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Real pension reform means structural changeMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - The time for meaningful action on Illinois’ pension problem is now. The billions of dollars that saddle the state with a pension albatross cannot be solved by shifting t...
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Cuts too deep in school transportationMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - If half the adult workforce would, or could, take public transportation to work each day, imagine how much better both our roads and environment would be. Fortunately f...
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Obama, Emanuel are all talkMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - Mr. Obama has railed on for months about the inequities in our society and he termed this the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. Once again this man that ran on a platform...
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Revenue generators or corporate greed?May 24, 2012 5:00 am - I read with great confusion the May 18 letter “Don’t destroy the revenue generators.” It would appear the author has just crawled out from beneath a rock. I assume he is...
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It’s not difficult to get a photo IDMay 24, 2012 5:00 am - How incredibly insulting it is to minorities to be told that they are incapable of accomplishing the same things as other people. Minorities have been told that they are...
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America should pay heed to GreeceMay 24, 2012 1:00 am - A wise person told me long ago that there are three kinds of people: those who simply never learn, those who learn from their mistakes, and then those really smart ones ...
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Township areas already ‘desirable’May 23, 2012 11:26 am - I’m all for saving money, but now I read that Cook County government wants to have unincorporated residents pay extra to make their communities “more desirable for munic...
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Voter fraud remains a problemMay 23, 2012 11:26 am - A recent letter writer trotted out some very old and very tired arguments against voter IDs. And, to top off the ridiculous contention of that letter’s author, he attemp...
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Abortion is taking of an innocent lifeMay 23, 2012 11:26 am - This is in response to Ginger Storniolo’s May 12 letter in Fence Post as to abortion being a private affair. In your argument supporting abortion and the decision being ...