McHenry County Opinion
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Be a good neighbor; shovel your walkFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Recently, while driving south on McLean Boulevard in Elgin, I was forced to brake and swerve into the left lane near the intersection of McLean and Larkin. The reason? A...
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Improve care and spend less moneyFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Last year's deep cuts in state funding for mental health services, coupled with similar cuts the previous year have devastated Illinois' already weak mental health syste...
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Saturday SoapboxFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Cut it out: Some readers may have responded to Friday's story about allegations of hazing by wrestlers at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake with a shrug o...
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Ford teaches lesson others must followFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Ford Profits. Unlike General Motors and Chrysler, who received billions in stimulus dollars and were taken over and restructured by the Federal Government, Ford Motor Co...
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Health care plan backed by elitistsFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, have long taken "We the People" for granted. An elitist mentality presupposes that we are incapable of understanding key iss...
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Why unemployment is not getting betterFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Here are a few statistics that should scare all of us. According to a recent poll, 78 percent of business leaders believe that President Obama is anti-business and 81 pe...
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Good timing on health storiesFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - I want to thank the folks at The Daily Herald for two different articles. Several months ago, I read an article in the weekend magazine that listed symptoms of ovarian c...
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Obama is the one who needs to changeFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Over the last year, Americans have witnessed the radical changes that Obama and his activist crew of comrades planned. Most of these don't follow his campaign promises t...
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Roads construction good for economyFeb 04, 2010 10:00 pm - With the widespread disrepair of America's infrastructure and continuing economic challenges, I strongly urge you to provide badly needed investments in the U.S. transpo...
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Work with Obama to get things doneFeb 04, 2010 10:00 pm - I am writing to implore our elected representatives to take a long look at what they are doing to our political system. Having watched the State of the Union and the Rep...