Lake County Opinion
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Rauner should sign automatic voter billAug 19, 2017 1:00 am - Nearly 100 years ago Friday, our country took a huge step in the fight for equality and voting rights. On Aug. 18, 1920, millions of American women were finally given th...
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The four acceptable conditions for warAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - President Donald Trump is down in the polls, the Russiagate investigation is closing in on him, and he desperately wants a "win," so he's beating the drums of war with N...
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Village misusing power on FOIA requestsAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - Wheeling's approach to its civically engaged resident is emblematic of government misuse of power. Illinoisans have the right to evaluate government actions by using the...
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End appeasement of North KoreaAug 14, 2017 1:00 am - Peace in our time. The 1938 slogan issued by England's Neville Chamberlain after surrendering Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, the last list of appeasement activities tha...
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An exercise in political imaginationAug 13, 2017 1:00 am - Imagine it is the summer of 2009. You voted for Barak Obama. On election night, the news anchors are saying that he has a 20 percent chance of winning. Imagine seeing lo...
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Putting a stop to the shenanigansAug 13, 2017 12:01 am - McHenry County taxpayers pay higher property taxes than 99.99 percent of Americans, and that's on top of a permanent income tax increase in a state with almost 7,000 loc...
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Encourage officials to work with TrumpAug 12, 2017 1:00 am - In response to a letter to the editor: "GOP just doesn't care": Again we see in print a "fake headline." This is not a one-man show. But the one man is showing us what h...
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Show respect for disabled parkingAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - I could not agree more with observations about the abuse of handicapped parking. My wife is handicapped and, where we do not need a ramp, she does require a wheelchair. ...
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Climate mythAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - On the Aug. 7 Opinion page, Mr. Knight from Citizens Climate Lobby, another false prophet Al Gore acolyte, talks about climate change, which is always present, and devol...
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Don't deny historyAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - When John Ray stated in his July 29 letter that "the Civil War was fought over states' rights and not slavery," he perpetuated a false narrative more than a hundred year...