McHenry County Opinion
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Loans, investments taxes equal crisisOct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Bad loans? Bad investors? Are they to blame? Yes, but that is not the only thing that helped push us into one of the worst financial years in history, you can also blam...
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Gas prices partly fault of our inactionOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing this to all of us Americans, media and politicians included, who are sitting back and watching the oil companies "rape and pillage" our economy. Oil prices ...
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Gentes will fight railroad saleOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Canadian National (CN) wants to make the EJ&E line into a train superhighway with at least 20 freight trains per day blocking traffic and making getting around impossibl...
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Palin won't fool today's womenOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - In has been written that Sarah Palin's convention speech was riddled with misinformation about Obama's positions. It was her first time out and, after all, the speech wa...
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Gun stance a part of larger problemOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Mark Kirk recently announced the endorsement of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg's endorsement came largely due to Congressman Kirk's long record of leadershi...
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Crisis exposes Seals' lack of judgmentOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - I am very disappointed to hear that Dan Seals supports financial meltdown. When asked to comment on the Sept. 29 defeat of the (original) financial rescue bill in the Ho...
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Most don't favor abortion rightsOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - While Cynthia Tucker has a good point that more available contraception may help the unwanted pregnancy rate of the under-resourced adults in our country, she is way off...
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Groundwater safety at risk in rail mergerOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - A serious consequence of Canadian National's proposed purchase of the EJ&E that has not received the deserved attention is the potential for contaminating our water supp...
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This isn't the time for Harper tax hikeOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently Harper College began asking residents how they should spend $300 million. Harper College has just recently completed a multimillion dollar addition. I ... was s...
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Why doesn't Kirk admit he's GOP?Oct 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Is Mark Kirk ashamed to admit he's a Republican? He never mentions his party in his commercials, in his written materials, in his speeches. He wants us to believe he's a...