McHenry County Opinion
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Why is the glass half empty, D300?Aug 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Quote from the local paper: "But District 300 school board President Joe Stevens said at the Aug. 9 meeting it is unlikely that money would help pay for additional teach...
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Law will make taxes fairerAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - A new law drafted by State Rep. Jack Franks to help reduce property taxes will take effect Jan. 1, 2011. The law is Franks's answer to the growing problem of artificiall...
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Voting is your responsibilityAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - As the cartoon character POGO once said, "We have found the enemy and it is us!" I've heard a lot of lame excuses lately, like "My one vote doesn't count," "I don't like...
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Morality trumps civil rightsAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - The Democratic Party is showing its disdain for the people. Recently Harry Reid questions how Hispanics can be Republicans; they want them to be slaves to Democrats' pol...
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Kudos to Franks for tax holidayAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Kudos to State Rep. Jack Franks for successfully creating the sales tax holiday from Aug. 6-15 this year. Rep. Franks introduced the idea to Illinois after a family vaca...
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'I want a doer not a talker'Aug 14, 2010 11:00 pm - My oldest grandson said he liked President Clinton, because when he was caught in a lie he could always say, so what? The President lies. My teenage granddaughter said s...
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Where are the Republicans?Aug 13, 2010 11:00 pm - For the fourth time since the election started, the fourth Democrat came over to my house asking for support. Recently State Rep. Jack Franks knocked on my door asking m...
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Grow a backbone or grab some benchAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - An increasingly irrelevant and intellectually lazy mainstream press, not surprisingly void of journalistic due diligence, has consistently lumped all politically-active,...
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Mosque column out of touchAug 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Richard Cohen really missed the mark in his Aug. 4 column, which was in support of the proposed construction of an Islamic Mosque in Manhattan. The reason that a great n...
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Ensure an ethical lottery transitionAug 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The Illinois Lottery will soon come under new management. In a move that state officials are hoping will improve the lottery's performance and return significant revenue...