Government: January 2008 Archives

We wonder why immigrants keep flooding the shores and borders of the United States? Two recent governmental acts --- free transit rides for seniors and the economic stimulus package --- could exacerbate the situation.

If you read that nice and colorful ad in The News-Sun from the Waukegan Park District about the closing of Orchard Hills Golf Course, you may have been struck, as The Hound was, by one of the items spelled out. It had to do with loss control.

There's nothing like a little hope to get one's hopes up. For some odd reason supporters of retaining Orchard Hills Golf Course got their hopes up with talk of reconsidering turning the course into a sports complex. Whomever spread that rumor certainly got it wrong. It wasn't The Hound.