McHenry County Opinion
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Pathetic Judy Sigwalt tirade all too familiarDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - This is in response to a couple of stories in the Daily Herald concerning Carpentersville. The first is about the so- called vandals in Carpenter Park damaging the newly...
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Raise scrutiny to stop foreclosed dreamsDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - You can't tune in a radio station for more than five minutes these days without hearing some huckster telling you to call soon for your no-money-down, no-income-verifica...
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More trains will hurt BarringtonDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - To the editor: The Canadian National Rail Corp. has purchased the Elgin Joliet and Eastern RR (The "J') from United States Steel. They want to upgrade the line and incre...
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Tax tales only add to senior travailsDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - When we moved to the Del Webb community Huntley, we were told taxes would be about $3,000 a year. The tax bill just finished paying in September was $7,800. Like many se...
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The good news John Drury never told you aboutDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - For a man whose bread always seemed to be buttered with cold, hard facts, anchorman John Drury was nourished by a much softer spread in the last 18 years of his life. La...
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Schools controlled by atheist ideasDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - Judging from all the protest surrounding the new moment of silence in Illinois schools, it looks as though Rob and Dawn Sherman have not yet realized the obvious. They h...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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Environmentalism is killing us!Dec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - With the cost of a barrel of crude fast approaching $100 a barrel, I have to ask my fellow Americans when it will be enough for you to do something about it? While I am ...
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Honorable Bianchi the only choiceDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Remember when there was decorum, decency, honesty and the ability to agree to disagree? When I grew up in a politically active family, it was a privilege to attend polit...
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Fox Lake Library plan is a sound oneDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - I was in the Fox Lake Library recently, reading Lee Filas' article about the February library bond issue, when I noticed a 9-foot crack in the thermopane glass next to t...