McHenry County Opinion
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Go green: Use grass clippings on lawnJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - To help preserve our environment, grass clippings are good for the lawn because grass is 75 percent water and it will quickly decompose and nourish the lawn with nitroge...
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How bad will misery index have to get?Jun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - By the end of the Jimmy Carter administration the media had developed a new measuring tool called the 'misery index' to calculate the general attitude of Americans towar...
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Tax hike would avert housing tragedyJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The state of Illinois is facing a dire economic situation compounded by the current recession and by the fiscal irresponsibility of the previous administration. The stat...
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Who does Congress really represent?Jun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - The one thing that actually mattered in the current Senate bill regarding credit card rules was an amendment to limit interest rates to 15 percent. That provision was ki...
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We're better than barbaric tortureJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Bob Lowth of Arlington Heights begins his May 17 letter to Fence Post with the following statement: "I'm always amazed when I read people who assume individuals that ar...
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Lawmakers: Follow kindergarten rulesJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - To the Illinois legislature: As a senior citizen I object to being used as a political pawn in this futile chess game called politics. I'm tired of the veiled threats, b...
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Ban on same-sex marriage costs allJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Thomas Jefferson said, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." The Californi...
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Nepotism isn't 'in the best interest'Jun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Some of the antics out of Springfield and Chicago through the years have clearly dismayed us. But a little town nestled in the Northwest suburbs may have just raised the...
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Reform legislation fails to reform muchJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - On May 31, the Democrats who control state government advanced another piece of campaign finance reform; HB 7, that does nothing more than codify the current practice. I...
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Moral calculus a lot of hooeyJun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Compliments to The Daily Herald for publishing one of Donna Brazile's columns. She is an award winning political commentator and, as always, well grounded and focused. H...