By Cheryl Wormley This week, my husband, Jim, and I have been talking about the importance of people voting in local elections. He even suggested I write Declarations on the topic, so here we go. First, I’m willing to bet that I am, as is said, preaching to the choir. That is, I believe most […]
By Ingrid Gay Dear Generation Z: Lazy, apathetic, and obsessed with our phones. That is how many older generations view my generation, Gen Z. We are perceived as not caring about issues, having neither drive nor work ethic, and always on our phone. Students marched for civil rights in the 1950s and ’60s and protested […]
Last week The Independentpublished its Voters Guide, which contains information we hope will help people to make decisions about which candidates to vote for in the Nov. 3 election. That wasn’t unusual. We publish a guide of candidate information before every election. What was out of the ordinary this fall was that we published it four […]
As the guy who oversees the voting process in McHenry County, Clerk Joe Tirio will tell you he has never voted by mail. “I get a patriotic shot in the arm when I go [to vote] on Election Day,” he said last week. Just days earlier, his office had sent out 155,000 vote-my-mail applications to […]
Mary McClellan’s last election as McHenry County clerk will be something new for voters: a new $2 million voting system. “We’ve updated everything,” McClellan said of the new touch-screen voting process. She is completing her first – and last – term as clerk, a job that includes running the county’s election process. The present voting […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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