McHenry County Opinion
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Name calling isn't what we're aboutAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I don't know who I'm more upset with - the person who recently wrote a letter to the editor comparing the current majority party to Nazis and Russians, or the Daily Hera...
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Doubting health chief's motivesAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - What's up with the 360-degree turnaround of Executive Director of Kane County Health Department Paul Kuehnert since Oct. 27, 2009? My understanding was that Kuehnert was...
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Bring home troops before more are lostAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I truly believe that if a poll were conducted asking how many American men and women have lost their lives in the Iraq war, most people wouldn't even be close in their a...
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Dist. 62: We've done our best to keep public informedAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - On Friday, Aug. 13, the Daily Herald editorialized about the impact of the recent strike by the Chicago Laborers District Council and Local 150 of the International Unio...
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Financial incentives could raise gradesAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Right now all the talk is about teachers, test scores, salary, tenure, union intervention and the students not learning. But what is education for? Is it not to improve ...
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Story missing objectivityAug 17, 2010 11:00 pm - On Aug. 14, I thought I was reading the Tribune when I saw Christopher Wells' Associated Press article about "prison release dangers." Wells managed to blame Gov. Quinn ...
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Some questions for two DemocratsAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Dear Sen. Durbin and Congresswoman Bean: Did you know you $800-plus billions "stimulus" turned into a welfare program for bankrupt states and public unions? Did you kn...
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Wrong time to borrow $70 millionAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - If sales tax revenue rallies, and if property values head back up, and if the state pays what it owes, and if the economy expands, a plan by DuPage County Board Chairman...
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Supporters of Obama dupedAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - On page 21 of the Aug. 6 edition of the Daily Herald, there is a short article regarding the fact that Bill Ayers, who co-founded the Weather Underground and helped bomb...
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Disagrees with outdoors columnistAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I was infuriated after reading Mike Jackson's Aug. 5 outdoor column. Most of us fisherman look at these articles for tips on the new technique or hot spot. All I got out...