McHenry County Opinion
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Soapbox: We need to listenNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's a salute to the League of Women's Voters/Palatine Area for its Veterans Day luncheon last week in Schaumburg. It was there that the League honored women in the mi...
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Soapbox: Still doesn't get itNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Isn't it a sad thing that when an Illinois politician is sent off to serve his prison sentence, as former Gov. George Ryan was this week, there's a ready supply of ex-co...
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Liberals not always free speech backersNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Liberals love to define themselves as staunch supporters of the First Amendment. They claim they may not agree with what you have to say but they will defend to the deat...
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This dictator with nukes our friend?Nov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Once again, the U.S. will continue to give large amounts of military aid to a dictatorial regime in Pakistan as it brutally cracks down on its own population. We will pa...
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Adoption stories tell only part of the taleNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - I was disturbed to read a recent article, "Suburban families fear moratorium on foreign adoptions." What disturbs me is not that these families have been unable to adopt...
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Housing market on local level is strongNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - In its recent article on national trends in the housing industry (Oct. 27, Associated Press, "Worse before it improves … All things housing predicted to fall: prices, sa...
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Eating shouldn't be this hazardous to usNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - E-coli warnings were rare until after World War II, when a few companies found ways to control food and its delivery systems in post-war America, from seed to produce an...
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McHenry County leaf burning must goNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Driving home to unincorporated McHenry County from my job in Libertyville one evening, the smoke from leaf burning was so thick visibility was greatly reduced. As a run...
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On life and death matters, we must resist dealing in speculationNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Speculation is about the only stock in trade for some mysteries. But that doesn't excuse openly dealing in the commodity An Austin, Texas-based PR agent offered us an in...
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Isn't it about time to speak English?Nov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Regarding the front-page story of the hazardous living conditions and health worries of the people in the old Kerr-McGee neighborhood. (Daily Herald Nov. 5). The danger...