Lake County Opinion
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Hobby Lobby hypocrisyJul 16, 2017 1:00 am - Claiming religious freedom, Hobby Lobby succeeded in not having to cover employee birth control costs. But apparently there are no religious objections to illegally smug...
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A father's claim that is hard to believeJul 14, 2017 1:00 am - My son works at a coffee shop. If he were to make $100 in tips one day, I'm sure I'd hear about it. He'd find the time at some point to say, "Hey Dad, crazy thing. I mad...
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Fraud commission will protect rule of lawJul 13, 2017 1:00 am - In response to the Daily Herald editorial "Resisting a brutish assault on voter privacy": The most valuable asset on the planet Earth is the right to vote in this great...
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The Illinois tax traditionJul 13, 2017 1:00 am - Tax, spend and borrow. That is the mantra of the Illinois General Assembly. They must have missed the simple math of grade school. When you have $32 billion to spend, y...
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'Perfect' is enemy of good health care billJul 12, 2017 1:00 am - As Senate Republicans, House Republicans and the Trump administration debate the emerging Republican plan to extract America from the ObamaCare death spiral, there is a ...
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Deal leaves out reformJul 11, 2017 1:00 am - We can swallow hard and abide by an income tax increase that will address the state's chronic fiscal issues, such as runaway pension payouts. The vote to increase income...
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What divides us? It's based on whom we serveJul 11, 2017 1:00 am - I am forever reading about the great divide in America. We cannot even unite behind a duly-elected president. Believe it or not there was a time in America when once a p...
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Source of our problem is lack of term limitsJul 11, 2017 1:00 am - We have just gone through another stalemate when working to make a budget. Madigan and Cullerton have been in office too long. Gov. Rauner has been trying to pass the bu...
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The folly of a $15 minimum wageJul 10, 2017 1:00 am - With Illinois approaching what could be a financial death spiral with a junk bond status, the Illinois House and the Senate still had time to pass a $15 minimum wage bil...
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Set aside passions to fill trustee vacancyJul 06, 2017 1:00 am - Mundelein continues to be divided by the 2017 local election. Some call it the battle of the 50 percent (give or take). We were all impassioned by our candidates of ch...