Cook County
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Make decisions fair to seniorsAug 14, 2011 4:00 am - Prior to the national debt agreements, there was talk of lost Social Security payments. That would mean that if the government doesn’t pay out, then our workforce would ...
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Jobs created when middle class spendsAug 14, 2011 4:00 am - The gnashing of teeth over raising the debt ceiling and budget cuts ignores the real problems in our nation. Our nation needs jobs! We need to reform trade policies to e...
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Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps finish 3rdAug 14, 2011 12:00 am - The dream of pulling off an upset victory fell just short Saturday night for the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps. At the Drum Corps International world championships in Ind...
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Grants allow Illinois parks to hire 760 teen workersAug 14, 2011 12:00 am - It was a stroke of good fortune for teens who couldn’t land summer jobs in our sluggish economy. Suddenly, park districts around the state announced in early July they w...
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Metropolis exec. director to step downAug 14, 2011 12:00 am - Jim Jarvis, the executive director of the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights, is stepping down after three years, theater officials announced this we...
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Deerfield doctor helped Indiana stage collapse victimsAug 14, 2011 12:00 am - Deerfield physician Dr. Dean Silas was in the 19th row of the grandstand at the Indiana State Fair with his wife, daughter and her boyfriend when a fair official announc...
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Veterans lacking what teachers haveAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - Ken Kitzing’s July 23 letter to the editor, “No comparison of teachers, veterans,” missed a very important point. Veterans also do not have a well-entrenched labor union...
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Thanks for kindness to a strangerAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - I come to the Northwest suburbs one to two weeks a month on business. I have to use two canes to walk. I have been surprised and pleased at the way total strangers treat...
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Corrupt state culture lives without BlagoAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - It appears that the long, sorry saga of Rod Blagojevich is finally sputtering to a conclusion. All that remains is his sentencing that will send him off to play cards wi...
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Let’s hope Baucus doesn’t cave to GOPAug 13, 2011 4:00 am - While we sit and await the Super Committee to get settled in Congress, hopes for anything positive arising from it are very low. The key to the committee is who on which...