Category: Your views

  • Letters promote candidates for April 1 election

    Underhill for County Board       Mike Underhill, Kenosha County Board Supervisor District 20       I am honored and privileged to serve my community as County Board Supervisor for District 20 (Paddock Lake and Salem) for the past two terms. I am seeking your vote for re-election on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. I am proud of…

  • Local candidates tell you why they deserve your vote April 1

        Candidates for local municipal and school April 1 spring elections were invited to submit a letter promoting their candidacy. Due to error The Report previously set the deadline for political letters as March 10. This was inaccurate. Political letters will be accepted for next week’s paper. Deadline is noon on Monday, March 17,…

  • Letters to Editor

    Seniors should be using the Senior Dining Sites Where are all the seniors, aged 60+, who have no desire in cooking nutritional meals, complain about food costs, dislike eating alone, etc.? Are they aware of the many Senior Dining Sites located out in the county, as well as the city? Five of the sites offer…

  • Enroll Lake County!

          I am excited to inform you that the Health Department will be playing a key role in enrolling eligible residents into health insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act.       The Department and the Alliance for Human Services have been awarded an $800,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health to…

  • Open letter to the Twin Lakes Village Board

    In 2003, I wrote to the Village Board urging the trustees to enact an ordinance banning the use of herbicides and pesticides on lake front property. Although we now have a ban on phosphorus fertilizer, more and more chemical lawn companies and individuals are using herbicides and pesticides directly on the lake front. While a…

  • Calling all RBCHS Alumni

    The time is rapidly approaching for the annual Richmond-Burton High School Alumni Banquet. This year it will be Saturday, July 13, at Maravela’s Banquet Hall and Catering, Route 59, Grand Avenue and 4 Washington Street, Fox Lake (Ingleside).       Cocktail hour will be at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m.       The price of…

  • Congress needs to get back to work on important problems

    get down to business to solve the problems that confront our nation and our world? They are busy trying to find scandals that will either besmirch the Obama Administration or Hillary Clinton. We have big problems such as: global climate change, lack of gun registration, inadequate job creation, poor immigration rules, unfair trade treaties, unfair…

  • Candidates write

    Brent Bluthardt for Antioch Township Trustee                   Open Letter to All Antioch Township Residents:                   My name is Brent Bluthardt and I am a candidate for Antioch Township Trustee and I respectfully ask for your vote on April 9.                   I am running for trustee because I want to make sure that the township continues…

  • Wisconsin must sacrifice so Illinois can share in casino profits

                      My letter is in response to a letter last week by Mr. Richard A. Bosanko from Bristol who was very critical of Governor Scott Walker.                   Ponder this. Wisconsin lost 700 “good paying union jobs” not because of a handful of protesting Indians having a hissy fit,…

  • Open letter to Silver Lake Board of Trustees           Eight years ago my wife and I moved to Silver Lake and not to long after that I attended my first village meeting.       This board consisted of some of the village’s mature citizens; some had 15 to 20 years of service. It didn’t take long…