McHenry County Opinion
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Income tax increase was sorely neededJan 23, 2011 12:00 am - The League of Women Voters of Illinois thanks the Illinois legislators who last week passed the revenue increase for the benefit of our citizens and the many needed serv...
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Dist. 15’s irresponsibility coming back to biteJan 23, 2011 12:00 am - At the Jan. 12 District 15 school board meeting the board and the superintendent discussed possible spending cuts that will be necessary to avoid projected deficit spend...
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Palatine GOP bringing common sense back to governmentJan 22, 2011 11:00 pm - How much longer are we going to put up with the mismanagement of the state of Illinois by misguided lawmakers? Illinois is the laughingstock of the nation. The governor ...
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Disappointed in article about D211 candidateJan 22, 2011 11:00 pm - We have been subscribers to the Daily Herald for the past 46 years. Your front page article titled “Watch Youth's Moral Fiber” (Jan. 14) disappointed us very deeply. We ...
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Consider these ideas over taxing smokersJan 22, 2011 12:00 am - Consider these ideas over taxing smokers I think it is about time all the politicians stop bullying us smokers. We are any easy target to be sure. Why keep taxing u...
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Check ethics of lame-duck votingJan 22, 2011 12:00 am - Check ethics of lame-duck voting Lame-duck legislation — is it legal? I would say yes. Is it moral? Is it ethical? I’m pretty sure my answer to the last two questio...
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Leaders’ failures led to pension crisisJan 22, 2011 12:00 am - Leaders’ failures led to pension crisis In his recent Fence Post letter, a Schaumburg resident proposed a solution to the state’s pension deficits: “Disperse the cu...
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Quinn should sign bill to end death penaltyJan 21, 2011 11:00 pm - I have toiled to abolish the death penalty most of my adult life. For 35 years, I have practiced as a criminal defense lawyer. I always knew that capital punishment woul...
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Don’t take cops for grantedJan 21, 2011 12:00 am - This is an open letter to mayors, city managers, county board presidents and to all who employ police officers and who are now in the process of cutting their salaries a...
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Letter reflected small-mindednessJan 21, 2011 12:00 am - I am not about to get into a religious debate with Mrs. Nancy Bekeleski concerning homosexuality and her letter of Jan. 7. But I felt compelled to respond to Bekeleski’s...