McHenry County Opinion
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Gulf region needs action, not wordsJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald Opinion page on June 22 featured editorials by Charles Krauthammer and Donna Brazile, both reacting to Obama's recent speech on the Gulf oil spill yet i...
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So many too blame in Vasquez tragedyJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - The outcome of the Vasquez trial was very upsetting. My heart aches for this young mother and her children and family. This was an accident Ms. Vasquez had no control ov...
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Franks does what's right for residentsJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Your June 5 editorial highlighted the fact that the only McHenry County legislator to support a sales tax holiday in Illinois was state Rep. Jack Franks. All the other a...
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Time to gag all school chief secrecyJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Palatine Township Elementary District 15's taxpayers are on the hook to pay former Superintendent Dan Lukich $185,000 in return for no work by him next year, unless he h...
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Turn your attention to Yucca MountainJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - While the nation's attention is fixated on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico there is a much less heralded fiasco known as Yucca Mountain. Located in Nevada, this site ...
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A new twist on term limitsJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Returning a person to the same job term after term in the legislature is how Madigan and Cullerton were able to get control and misuse it by presiding over what is a cor...
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Sexual abusers are always a threatJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing in response to an article about Laurie J. Augustine, a sex offender, who has not been released from prison because of not being able to find approved housin...
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Right idea, wrong politicianJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - The article written by Robert McCoppin in the Herald's July 6th edition titled "A bad case of loving himself" was very interesting, but I think that he got the name wron...
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Here's how Arizona can repeal its lawJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - There has been so much written about Arizona's new immigration law. Countless demonstrations in so many locations. Hundreds demanding that the Chicago Cubs should move t...
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Obama well on way to bankrupting U.S.Jul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Why hasn't the mainstream media caught on that Obama's policies will bankrupt our wonderful country? At the G8 and G-20 meeting this weekend, even our Socialist friends ...