McHenry County Opinion
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County has great record of preservationDec 19, 2015 12:00 am - I am writing in response to the letter to the editor submitted by Paul Showers in the Dec. 7 titled "Forest Preserve shows 'dump' mentality." The Lake County Forest Pr...
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Put Christ back into ChristmasDec 17, 2015 11:01 pm - While Christmas has been celebrated for many years, the U.S. Congress declared it a national holiday and on June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law....
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Editorial: Find cause of shrinking achievement gap for Hispanics at ECC and spread itDec 16, 2015 10:00 pm - As the Daily Herald's Poverty Achievement Index has borne out, whether in previous standardized state tests or the just-released results of the new PARCC test, there is ...
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What does this say of religious tolerance?Dec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - What does this say of religious tolerance? So, let me get this straight. Our daughters are dressed in Muslin hijabs in a public school to foster tolerance of a reli...
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Let's not repeat mistakes of the pastDec 14, 2015 12:00 am - As expected given the recent spate of news coverage of the Paris climate talks, deniers have stepped up their letter writing, trotting out the same old arguments about w...
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Explorers saddened to be told they're no longer needed in Fox LakeDec 10, 2015 10:00 pm - Last week, the Fox Lake Explorers and their parents met with the Fox Lake Police Department and the Mayor Donny Schmidt. Previously, the last meeting of the year has alw...
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Climate debate is 'science friction'Dec 10, 2015 12:00 am - OK, what's going on here? Is there a problem? Global warming? High CO2 levels? Climate change? Our world on the brink of ...(you fill in the blank). One problem that k...
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Hey, media, just let Gliniewicz story goDec 07, 2015 12:00 am - By now, everyone knows how Lt. Gliniewicz went from the Heights of Heroism to the Pits of Disgrace. When will the media let it go and stop printing article after article...
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Candidate must show he's ready for senateDec 04, 2015 12:00 am - Martin McLaughlin has a high position in the Barrington Hills Village Board. Barrington Hills is currently a successful village, yet many members of the village believe ...
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Notice of property tax increase seasonNov 28, 2015 12:00 am - It must be tax raising season. I see all these notices in the paper that read: "NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE FOR ... " Then I read Toni Preckwinkle is runnin...