McHenry County Opinion
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Cut spending, taxes for economic fixFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - The president's budget proposal for 2011 is so upside down it should scare every American to death. It just may do that. He is proposing $3.8 trillion of which $1.56 tri...
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Sign up to support fair representationFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - The turnout for the recent primary was abysmal. Why? Because people in Illinois are disgusted with our state government and feel very helpless about ever changing how t...
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Obama showed us how not to winFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Recently the Obama administration gave us an example of how not to win by burning the midnight oil in an effort to push through an agenda with their majority while ignor...
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Cohen earned more votes than BurrisFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - It is amazing how our representatives (ie. Durbin, Quinn, Davis) sway in the political winds. Not too long ago, they vowed not to seat Roland Burris to the vacant U.S. ...
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Don't blame voters, blame the mediaFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Don't blame the voters for the election of Scott Lee Cohen as the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor. The Daily Herald's editorial says he was nominated "in part...
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Thanks for votes for Kane judgeFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - I want to express my deep appreciation to Kane County voters for your vote of confidence to be your Republican candidate for Judge of the 16th Circuit Court of Kane Coun...
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Politicians: Do not call meFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - First, let me introduce myself. My name is Gloria Kowal, I live in Kane County, I have been of voting age for many years, and I have always been a Democrat. But for how ...
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Tort reform needs constitutional fixFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - With a vote of 4 to 3, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the state's malpractice law passed in 2005 which limited "pain and suffering" damages to $500,000 for indiv...
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Early voting costly, may be unnecessaryFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - With the total number of votes in Kane County being so low and the budget in Kane County being so stretched it seems to me that it might be a good idea to evaluate the e...
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This generation must fix health careFeb 09, 2010 10:00 pm - We are incredibly close to passing real health reform. I stand with President Obama in calling on Congress to finish the job. Cost of inaction is grave and troubling. We...