McHenry County Opinion
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Report pushes parents to advocateMay 01, 2009 11:00 pm - What will it take to educate all our children? Illinois Kids Count tries to answer this question by looking at how our kids are doing in school, what's working, and what...
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Daley is part of county's problemApr 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Commissioner John Daley's recent letter to the editor was an entertaining work of fiction - but the taxpayers of Cook County deserve the truth. As Finance Chairman, Comm...
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The holocaust continues todayApr 29, 2009 11:00 pm - On April 20, I read the article in the Daily Herald about the dedication of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Contemplating this and the movie, "The Co...
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Higher taxes bad for IllinoisansApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Headlines across Illinois today tell us why we cannot trust lawmakers with the money they already take from us and should not trust them with even more. The headlines t...
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Prayers for Taylor - and all sick kidsApr 27, 2009 11:00 pm - The news must have hit Taylor Radtke's family like a body blow from a heavyweight fighter - the tumor is back. Eighteen months after a tumor originally considered inoper...
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Lifelong Republican agrees with ObamaApr 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Mr. Obama promised that his tax policy would affect the working class. I wholeheartedly agree and will be one of the people that helps him keep his word when he raises m...
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"Yes" vote is not consensus on Rt. 53Apr 24, 2009 11:00 pm - This week roughly 22 percent of the voters of Lake County went to the polls and voted on the advisory referendum question, "Shall the State of Illinois construct the ext...
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Stroger offers too little, too lateApr 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Do you really think you are doing Cook County residents and business owners a favor by reducing your ridiculous tax hike? That's insane, and I would think that a man in ...
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Government doesn't need to kick down our doorsApr 24, 2009 11:00 pm - I am responding to Mr. Chmela in regard to my original letter to Fence Post. You think I was a bit heavy and incorrect in my assessment of AIG and what the government sh...
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Free lunch? Not on taxpayers' dime, pleaseApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Whether we live in Arlington Heights, Algonquin or Antioch, it seems we hear of more layoffs, job losses, pay cuts and closures almost every day. From Schaumburg to Roun...