Mount Prospect Opinion
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Starving out seniorsSep 01, 2017 1:00 am - On or about Aug. 1, I, like most of you paid or have paid the Cook County property tax. Due to the tri-annual equalized assessment value of my home, my yearly tax increa...
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We must condemn anti-American ideologiesAug 27, 2017 1:00 am - Loud alarms should be ringing to alert all of us about the dangers of what happened in Charlottesville. Hate-filled people marched in Nazi regalia, shouting out their an...
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Qualifications, not wallets, are importantAug 27, 2017 1:00 am - I recently attended a forum of the Democratic gubernatorial candidates. I took the opportunity at this forum to ask candidate J.B. Pritzker a question about the large am...
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Don't let tax anger skew your perspectiveAug 20, 2017 1:00 am - I'm a Cook County resident who was and is still angry about the recent huge "sugar" tax. I vowed never to order or shop for a sweetened drink in Cook County again and I'...
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Perverting historyAug 19, 2017 1:00 am - The South with its Confederate flags and monuments has a perverted sense of history, which honors traitors who turned their backs on the Union, their military oaths and ...
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Sanctuary for whom?Aug 14, 2017 1:00 am - Rahm Emmanuel is correct that Chicago is a sanctuary city. Unfortunately it is a sanctuary city for gun-wielding gang bangers and law breakers. Daniel M. Filipek Mount P...
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Devaluing of life occurs every dayAug 09, 2017 1:00 am - The recent publication of "Healthcare should be a human right" by Maria Fort of Chicago ends with "we all deserve access to health care," which we agree with. Healthcar...
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Devaluing of human lifeAug 09, 2017 1:00 am - Healthcare does not include the killing of the unborn, in our opinion. The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, forces all tax payers to buy "government approved" insuran...
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Editorial: Cook County takes soda-tax fight to dangerous new levelAug 06, 2017 11:00 pm - We would have thought that taking out after citizens who exercised their rights to challenge their government would be an action beneath the standards of Cook County Boa...
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Help wanted: Skilled workforce for the future of manufacturingAug 06, 2017 11:00 pm - AVAILABLE: Six-figure position with limitless potential and opportunity that requires no education debt and offers employer-paid training in the high-demand STEM field. ...