Lake County Opinion
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State’s broken pension promise is theftApr 27, 2012 10:25 am - Call the police! I want to charge the Illinois General Assembly with “theft” or perhaps “theft by deception.” When I started teaching at an Illinois community college 42...
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Attended rally to support COD facultyApr 27, 2012 1:00 am - The article in the April 20 Daily Herald made reference to comments made by me at a rally of the faculty on Thursday. The reporter claimed that my comments identified Ki...
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Pay for road builders like health careApr 26, 2012 7:54 pm - With Illinois in the midst of a budget crisis and plans under way to make widespread deep cuts in payments to hospitals, doctors and other health services providers, Gov...
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A cooperative act other governments can borrowApr 26, 2012 5:58 am - We’ve had occasion lately to congratulate several suburban communities or governing bodies for cooperative efforts that result in more efficient programming or money sav...
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Voter ID needed more than everApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - A recent writer to the Fencepost, Mr. James Prescott, joined with a few other misguided people in claiming that voter identification is an effort to discourage minoritie...
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Elgin looking great, but why visit?Apr 26, 2012 5:00 am - Kudos to the City of Elgin for its upcoming summer siege on downtown. Last year was pretty bad trying to navigate the blocked off streets and detours to do business with...
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Republican Party not what it wasApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - I used to have a lot of respect for both the Democratic and Republican parties. Not so much any more. “Back in the day,” both were able to maintain their moderate-libera...
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Distinguish between winery, tavernApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - My wife and I have visited many wineries and we have enjoyed them. On these Wine tasting visits it was always very clear I was not in a tavern. For one thing the quantit...
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Alternative views were neededApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - The April 17 Fence Post letter “Why the Catholic Church has it right” clears up some questions I personally have had for 50 years. I want to thank Mr. Peter Nordlund for...
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Once they vote, what can taxpayers do?Apr 26, 2012 5:00 am - I agree with everything in your April 16 editorial, “Stop the pension penalty insanity.” What I want to know is how we taxpayers can do that? We seem to have no control ...