"If Shorten leaves one post, we will still need to cut two checks. Since he’s doing a good job with both why chance someone else," Peter Krawczyk of McHenry writes in a letter to the editor.

It’s important to remember that any development at this scale necessarily impacts public resources, even if just transportation infrastructure and emergency response.

A plethora of pink is about to hit us all during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. However, many of us who have had breast cancer aren't feeling very festive. Like the disease, it's a bit complicated.

Plenty of legislative proposals are perennial, some with the same diligent sponsors and a few that represent old ideas under new names. On rare occasions, one party claims the other’s idea as its own and runs it up a different flagpole. That won’t happen with HB 2827.

"Numeracy – like literacy – equips students to think critically, solve problems and make informed decisions in daily life."

Bob Rozycki of Crystal Lake shares a conversation he had with a World War II veteran outside a local nursing home, who said he wondered if the current president was what he fought to protect.

Mike Shorten meeds to "resign as a County Board Member or resign as the Nunda Township supervisor," writes Bob Anderson of Wonder Lake.

"I wish to thank Prairie Isle Golf Club for their wonderful tribute to veterans, at their 19th annual Veterans Salute held on Sept. 9 in Crystal Lake," Ron Hameetman of Fox River Grove writes in a letter to the editor.

"I support the idea of having the Ten Commandments displayed in public schools, which is now being done in several schools across the country," Tim Beck of McHenry writes in a letter to the editor.