McHenry County Opinion
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Primary is over; time to go GreenFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - The primary election is finally over. The Democratic and Republican parties and their candidates spent millions of dollars trying to convince you, the Illinois voters, t...
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Offshore oil could ease funding crisisFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - It would seem to me that if President Obama and our Congress were serious about job creation they would look at the Pentagon, the largest purchaser in the U.S., and not ...
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Give us whole truth about estate taxFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - After reading Long Grove Village President Maria Rodriquez's opinion piece about the estate tax, is it too much to ask for her to just be honest? The 55 percent rate on...
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Minority party got us into this messFeb 19, 2010 10:00 pm - In reading the opinion page, I ask where were the hawks against deficit spending when the Bush administration turned a $2 billion surplus into a $5 trillion deficit: tax...
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We must find honorable leadersFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - I was not surprised to read the national headline of yet another Illinois politician engulfed in scandal. How long are we going to take the corruption from our state off...
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Let the market fix health care systemFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - I may not be the cheapest man in America, but I am certainly in the team picture. Some people even say that George Washington wears sunglasses when he comes out of my wa...
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Keep trial lawyers out of CongressFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - A letter was published Feb. 8 by a president of the Trial Lawyers Association, which extolled the wonderful work trial lawyers accomplish to help certain victims of unju...
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February primary was an eye-openerFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - This last primary election has shown the people of Illinois that two changes need to be made. First, the primary date needs to be changed. There is no way the citizens o...
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Cost drives kids out of organized sportsFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - The article about the decline in youth baseball enrollment, given the state of the economy, is poorly timed and a bit socially irresponsible. Suburban kids are not enrol...
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Lauzen's victory shows he respondsFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - State Sen. Chris Lauzen's landslide victory in the Feb. 2 primary election should be an important lesson to politicians. His opposition contended that he was not an effe...