Cook County Opinion
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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 ...
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Septemberfest crew deserves kudosSep 13, 2018 5:00 am - I just want to commend the public works crew for the backbreaking and excellent job they did at Septemberfest. The staff was polite and nice to those asking for mulch a...
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Thanks to Arlington Heights forestry departmentSep 13, 2018 5:00 am - The last rainstorm brought down a limb of the parkway tree and blocked my driveway. I want to thank the Arlington Heights Forestry Department for rapidly responding and ...
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Time for Palatine to revisit raising the minimum wageSep 13, 2018 5:00 am - On May 8, 2017, Palatine Mayor Jim Schwantz and the Village Council unanimously opted out of the Cook County ordinances increasing the minimum wage and instituting paid ...
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Gifts of serviceSep 10, 2018 1:00 am - I am inspired by those who speak of the dead over those of the living who lead us in Washington. Our examples are Aretha Franklin compared to Donald Trump. John McCain c...
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Candidate demonstrates best of our democracySep 10, 2018 1:00 am - It is my pleasure to endorse Terra Costa Howard for Illinois District 48 state representative. While I was employed as a language arts teacher for eight years at Hadley ...
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Ethics-based choicesSep 10, 2018 1:00 am - With college football starting, the Big 10 should know that my high school daughter will not submit an application for admission to Penn State (child molestation scandal...