Opinion Stories from July 9, 2012 (Change date)
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Editorial: No room for confidentiality in public dealsJul 09, 2012 6:54 pm - The concern for confidentiality in some employment relationships is understandable, especially when things don’t work out as planned. But when it involves a government j...
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Enough debate on Duckworth’s serviceJul 09, 2012 1:48 pm - Enough debate on Duckworth’s service I was unpleasantly surprised to see not one but two recent articles in the Daily Herald about Congressman Joe Walsh’s comments ...
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The money managerJul 09, 2012 10:26 am - You can conduct byzantine transactions through opaque investment accounts and private corporations in offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Or you ...
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When life give you rising ocean levels . . .Jul 09, 2012 9:57 am - So I’m reading the Daily Herald, I think it was June 23. I see one headline that reads, “Drought covers 70 percent of Illinois.” And right next to it in the adjacent col...
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Vote Republican and continue the messJul 09, 2012 9:57 am - Have you ever seen anything like the sore loser Republicans, ever? From the 2008 election, when their dynamite McCain-Palin team got the old heave-ho, to the “Obamacare”...
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Know what will happen to MedicareJul 09, 2012 9:57 am - We have been hearing a lot about the constitutionality of Obamacare, but nobody has given us the whole picture. What are “they” afraid of? Maybe one of those items is th...
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Health care politics go into extra inningsJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - There was never much doubt that the individual mandate in “Obamacare” was constitutional. As Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge had noted, the first Congress in ...
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Quit smoking now, save more than moneyJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - Quit smoking now, save more than money Beginning last month, cigarettes cost an extra dollar per pack in Illinois due to the recently enacted increase in the state...
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Move ahead on Medicaid expansionJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - Move ahead on Medicaid expansion The U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of Affordable Care Act that had guaranteed coverage for up to 57 million Americans — 32 million ...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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