Cook County Opinion
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Editorial: The case for township road districts' demiseOct 02, 2018 11:00 pm - A Wheeling Township experiment recently caught our eye. The township eliminated the elected position of highway commissioner and in the first year dropped its tax collec...
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OK, be transparentSep 28, 2018 1:00 am - President Trump wants to declassify and release certain portions of the FISA application related to the Russia investigations being conducted by Robert Mueller. The reas...
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Editorial: Parking garage makes sense for Schaumburg entertainment districtSep 26, 2018 5:00 pm - When suburban downtowns blossom into "entertainment districts" with plenty of restaurants and clubs, it can be a lot of fun. Until the on-street parking dries up, that i...
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Kane County balks at tax increase, for nowSep 26, 2018 1:00 am - Kane County residents received at least a one-week reprieve from a tax increase Wednesday. But the latest draft of the county's 2019 budget fails to restore a program th...
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Committee sends Longmeadow toll bridge funding to full Kane County BoardSep 18, 2018 1:00 am - Commuters on the north end of Kane County will have a new Fox River crossing option in the form of a 95-cent toll bridge if the full county board follows the lead set Tu...
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End one-party rule in DuPage CountySep 17, 2018 1:00 am - We can end one-party rule in DuPage County by electing the Democrats who are running in all six districts. (Not all seats are up for re-election, so a blue wave at this ...
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Multi-year planning, efficiencies helping Dist. 211 operate free of debtSep 16, 2018 11:00 pm - A recent headline in the Daily Herald read that the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 budget lowers costs and forecasts a $7.9 million surplus. Understandably...
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Editorial: Complaining over the wrong distractions in Van Dyke prosecutionSep 16, 2018 11:00 pm - As a nationally watched murder trial gets under way in Chicago, the chairman of the Kane County Board is worried about the wrong distractions involving the trial's prose...
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Constitution change should include pensionsSep 16, 2018 1:00 am - The progressive income tax proposed by JB Pritzker allegedly is to only tax the rich. You could take all the annual income earned each year from every billionaire in Ill...
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Editorial: An ode to the Paddock newspaper familySep 15, 2018 2:00 pm - When word went out Thursday that as part of the company's conversion into full employee ownership, the Paddock family is in the process of selling its 120-year interest ...