McHenry County Opinion
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More class time would help improve scoresJan 03, 2016 12:00 am - Just finished reading yet another Daily Herald article and editorial concerning our student's lack of sufficient learning to meet the state requirement, and to continue ...
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Davis: I knew Cougars before they were The CougarsJan 02, 2016 12:00 pm - I was there for Opening Day. Opening day of 1991, that is. It was a raw, blustery April day, and several of us Daily Herald types decided a field trip to see the new min...
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A million bucks just ain't what it used to beJan 02, 2016 12:00 am - This is in response to Mr. Gregg's letter printed Dec. 12. His suggested "cap" of $1 million "net worth" to receive Social Security benefits does not take into considera...
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States need to restrain the fedsDec 31, 2015 11:01 pm - With excessive regulations and a national debt approaching $20 trillion, Americans are well aware that our federal government has become drunk with power. The U.S. Congr...
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Editorial: Gliniewicz case gave us a reminder of importance of discretionDec 28, 2015 10:00 pm - We remember distinctly where we were when we first heard that a police officer had been shot in Fox Lake. During our regular Tuesday morning editors confab we heard in q...
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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...