Lake County Opinion
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Why the royal treatment for Blago?Dec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Congratulations for “Blago.” How wonderful, an extra month of freedom before you start your supposed 14-year sentence for corruption. How nice of Judge Zagel granting hi...
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Schools must live within their meansDec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Before the ink gets dry on my morning Herald, let me forward my thanks and appreciation for the editorial on the rash of school district actions approving tax levies. Wi...
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The SoapboxDec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Celebrate sensibly: It might be a timeworn bit of advice, but it remains an important one, simply told by the municipal sign outside the Schaumburg police/fire departmen...
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Is Roskam really working for us?Dec 29, 2011 4:00 am - I just received a very slick and colorful mailing from Congressman Peter Roskam — the No. 1 user of congressional free postage. I object! In small type it’s noted “this ...
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Driving distractions come in all formsDec 29, 2011 4:00 am - This week, our series of distracted driving editorials has focused on texting and cellphone use. But distractions come in all forms. The advances in technology have led ...
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Attach punishment to enrollment theftDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - The Daily Herald reports that whenever out-of-district students whose residency information has been falsified are discovered, the district is “legally required to ask f...
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We need to dig ourselves out of messDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - I read Mr. Bliss’s letter that appeared in your paper Dec. 22. I am not a “right wing Tea Party” member, but I do have a question for him. What “failed policies” is Mr. ...
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Memorial for great publisherDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - Bill Schroeder, founder of Lakeland Publishers, who died Dec. 17, was in my opinion a giant of a newspaper man in Illinois and in the United States as well as perhaps do...
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Let U.S. officials make the statementsDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - Communist North Korea’s President Kim Jong II died a few days ago and our poli“trick”cians are voicing their opinions without consideration for Secretary of State Hillar...
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Small businesses need care, tooDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - Big Illinois government is fell all over itself to pay hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to big companies in a desperate attempt to keep them located in ...