Prospect Heights Opinion
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Prospect Heights' story began long before incorporationSep 21, 2015 5:00 am - Regarding Tom Quinlan's Aug. 23 article, "An hour in Prospect Heights," the article should have mentioned that Prospect Heights was formed by Smith & Dawson in 1938 as t...
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Texting cartoon was no laughing matterSep 19, 2015 1:00 am - I am very disappointed in the Daily Herald's choice to run the Moderately Confused cartoon in the Wednesday, Sept. 16, edition. Jeff Stahler's cartoons are some of my fa...
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Universal health care is the normAug 14, 2015 1:00 am - I would just like to inform all those (mostly Republican) neighbors of mine who are critical of Obamacare that the concept is not new. My Boston cousins have enjoyed it...
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County can keep improving without harmful sales taxJul 14, 2015 1:00 am - We've had this debate before, and my opinion hasn't changed since our last go-round under Todd Stroger with raising the sales tax on the hardworking taxpayers of Cook Co...
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Marriage is a civil, not religious contractJul 11, 2015 1:00 am - I hope this will be the last time that I shall have to point out to Mr. Jim Finnegan and all those who think of marriage in the USA as a religious contract. On the contr...
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Editorial: Sales tax increase still a bad idea for Cook CountyJul 07, 2015 1:00 am - If anyone has earned the credibility to justify revisiting a sales tax increase in Cook County, it's Toni Preckwinkle. In almost five years at the helm of the county boa...
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We must always be open to new evidenceJul 01, 2015 1:00 am - To those who insist that global warming is real, humans cause it and the debate is over: The business of science is to continuously explore eternally open questions. A ...
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Editorial: More innovation from community colleges, NIUJun 14, 2015 11:00 pm - Community colleges may still have a way to go before establishing their own four-year degree programs, but five suburban community colleges took a step last week that es...
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Keeping facts straight on teacher pensionsJun 13, 2015 1:00 am - Greg Stimpson's May 30 comments on Christine Eggert's May 22 letter regarding teacher pensions requires a few corrections. First, he implied that teachers' personal pe...
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Editorial: The Cook County sheriff's deputies' Super Bowl abuse of sick timeJun 09, 2015 11:00 pm - Few of us begrudge the extra costs - even the sometimes substantial extra costs - that accompany a professional sports championship. The planning. The ticker tape parade...