McHenry County Opinion
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Doesn't trust Duffy on CN questionOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I live in Barrington near the EJ&E railroad tracks. Canadian National wants to buy the EJ&E tracks, and increase traffic to 20 freights a day. That's why I don't plan to...
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Seals is wrong on Social SecurityOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Dan Seals once again provided unintentional hilarity for me when he claimed that he is now some great defender of Social Security. I just began drawing Social Security b...
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Froehlich betrayed his party, his friendsOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Paul Froehlich used to be the kind of elected official that I looked up to. From my perspective, I wanted to be like Paul Froehlich. When I wanted to become more activel...
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Waller has a proven recordOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I have been a voting resident of Lake County since 1952. I have seen many elected officials come and go during that time period, many of whom served the county with grea...
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Kirk fights wasteful spendingOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to commend Congressman Mark Kirk for holding the line on wasteful spending and pork. Kirk is the only member of the appropriations committee, the Congressio...
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Kirk commended for education fightOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to commend Mark Kirk for his essential work on education for the underprivileged. Impact aid is the money the federal government pays to schools that educat...
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Mailers misleading on abortion issueOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Personal PAC has mailed area voters information based on a blatant lie, appealing to emotions rather than reason or truth. Many Lake County voters received this PAC mail...
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Mailer smeared Congressman KirkOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - In the past few weeks my mailbox has been flooded by misleading fliers from a group calling itself "Patriot Majority Midwest." The first few peddled the same lie: that M...
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Beware members of the 'Turncoat' PartyOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Paul Froehlich and Fred Crespo. Many loyal Republicans worked to get them elected because we believed they had the same values and goals as we did. We gave them one of t...
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Vets have no better friend than KirkOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of false information flying around about Congressman Mark Kirk's record on veterans. Dan Seals' outrageous television ...