Cook County
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‘Free speech zones’ coming to suburbs?Jun 25, 2011 3:00 am - Earlier this month, a small group of individuals engaged in their monthly peace demonstration at Dunton Park in Arlington Heights. For the first time in my memory, an of...
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Liberalism has failed in practiceJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - This was President Obama’s plan from the get go: cheat the workers, force the middle class into the same health care coverage as those 30 million who chose not have heal...
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Focus on jobs, not just the deficitJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - The Republicans have a plan to boost the U.S. economy, lower taxes to encourage investment and increase production while cutting government spending. This plan is called...
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Obama puts himself above the lawJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - In 2005, after The New York Times revealed then-President Bush’s illegal NSA spying program, I wrote a letter calling for Bush’s impeachment. The reason was simple: Bush...
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School reform bill is just a startJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - We have all read about the “big” school reforms signed into law by Gov Quinn. I just finished reading the 111-page SB 7 and remind the public that tenure one of the bigg...
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A German perspective: Women of the HolocaustJun 25, 2011 12:00 am - Editor's note: Teresa Schmedding, an editor at the Daily Herald, is a Catholic whose family emigrated from Germany in the 1880s. Julie Merar, a Prospect Heights resi...
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A Jewish perspective: Women of the HolocaustJun 25, 2011 12:00 am - Editor's note: Teresa Schmedding, an editor at the Daily Herald, is a Catholic whose family emigrated from Germany in the 1880s. Julie Merar, a Prospect Heights resi...
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Elgin man dies after serving in IraqJun 25, 2011 12:00 am - A 21-year-old Elgin man died Tuesday in Texas after suffering from traumatic brain injury resulting from an Army training exercise accident last year, his family said Sa...
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Skokie museum offers first look at women of HolocaustJun 25, 2011 12:00 am - “Spots of Light: To be a Woman in the Holocaust” opened this week at the Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie. The exhibit is part of a traveling exhibit from...
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Put common sense back in fireams lawsJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - The right to carry arms is for self-protection. The Constitution was written by generally common-sense farmers and businessmen. The time was after the Revolutionary War ...