Letters to the Editor
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Mixed-up policyFeb 28, 2024 4:15 am - I read the letter Saturday from Gerald Thomas about what the Democrats have brought, and I agree with him completely. “Let's force all women of childbearing age to take b...
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The right candidates for judge seatsFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - I am a 56-year Palatine resident, former (24-year) Palatine councilman, (four-year) fire and police commissioner, (eight-year) park district commissioner and (six-year) m...
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Slam dunk for presidentFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - After despairing over the seemingly inevitable two choices in November, I have decided to write-in my pick. Caitlin Clark for president. Tom Walsh Palatine ...
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A Trump payoff planFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - So Donald Trump got slapped with a $355 million judgment for doing things that he shouldn’t have. So, what’s the big deal? If each one of his 74,216,728 MAGA followers wh...
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Beware breaking rules that hold republic togetherFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - Early 20th century writer and philosopher George Santayana is often quoted as stating. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The parallels betw...
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An accident of youth that eventually paid offFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - The Daily Herald’s Feb. 15 “An ‘old soul” story of the area’s last typewriter repairers prompted nostalgic thoughts of a time in my life, decades ago, when a journalist u...
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Sales tax is wrong for mental health servicesFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - The McHenry County Board seems more concerned about getting taxpayers to accept a new 0.25% sales tax for mental health funding rather than any serious concern for how th...
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Alabama court ruling raises frightening futureFeb 25, 2024 3:30 pm - I read with increasing horror the story about the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that frozen embryos are considered children. That indicates that each of these “childre...
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Rare insight on GazaFeb 24, 2024 12:22 pm - A few weeks ago, Keith Raffel wrote an enlightening piece on the Daily Herald’s Opinion page. It was titled“A three-state, not two-state solution.” He explained how doing...
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Correcting the record on executive ordersFeb 24, 2024 12:22 pm - It isn’t accurate to state that Biden has issued more executive orders than “…any other president by far.” He’s not even close. The current record is still held by FDR wi...