McHenry County Opinion
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Helpers made garden walk beautifulJul 21, 2010 11:00 pm - On July 10, the Pottawatomie Garden Club held a Garden Walk in St. Charles. It was very successful, featuring five beautiful gardens - some large and some small, some in...
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Kindness of stranger an example to allJul 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Just when you start to doubt mankind, an angel appears. On the afternoon of July 11 I pulled into the Hoffman Estates Aldi store to get a few groceries. My husband, who ...
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Put baseball before profitsJul 21, 2010 11:00 pm - As a loyal Cubs fan, it truly sickens me to see what has happened to the team and especially to Wrigley Field. Since the purchase of the club, the Ricketts family has tu...
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Questions sanity of Elgin's spendingJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - I just read my Daily Herald and was a little angry. It seems the circus came to town yesterday and I missed it. Not really - I'm talking about the $676,500 of our money ...
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Vote Kirk for fiscal valuesJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - The cost of insuring Illinois debt is now the highest in the entire country. Fitch and Moody's ratings agencies have lowered our debt rating. Alexi Giannoulias wants inc...
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Hinz an ideal village managerJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - I was pleasantly surprised to notice in a recent Daily Herald that Carpentersville Trustee Keith Hinz has expressed an interest in becoming Carpentersville's new village...
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Lost jobs aren't coming backJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Everyone keeps looking at the unemployment rates and wondering when they will go down. The fact is the jobs won't return; they have been shipped overseas. Unemployment h...
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A start, but only that, on opennessJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - No one expected that a new law requiring more openness in government would by itself suddenly spur officials to get religion about what the "public" in public documents ...
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Teach languages besides EnglishJul 19, 2010 11:00 pm - In response to Joe Kudelka of Elk Grove Village, his letter makes a lot of assumptions. First it suggests that English will not be taught in schools. Not true. All stude...
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Tell voters why you're runningJul 19, 2010 11:00 pm - As we get closer and closer to the midterm elections with only a few more than 100 days left, I keep waiting for the candidates who wish to be elected to tell us why the...