Cook County Opinion
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Seniors at riskOct 26, 2017 1:00 am - Congressman Peter Roskam has turned his back on seniors in the 6th Congressional District. He supports a FY2018 budget resolution that would end Medicaid and Medicare a...
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Bush's remarks not limited to TrumpOct 26, 2017 1:00 am - Your Oct. 20 front page headline "Bush rebukes Trump politics" goes a bit beyond what former President Bush actually said. I and many others believe President Bush was r...
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Why it's time to 'unite or die'Oct 26, 2017 12:01 am - Our Revolutionary War ancestors fought under a dozen or more different flags all to achieve the same end - our freedom from the King of England. We were united in this e...
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Focus on the criminalsOct 25, 2017 1:00 am - In response to the two ostensibly well-intentioned but apparently misguided ladies who wrote from Barrington and Kildeer, "Gun money and politics" Oct. 19, "Gun raffle w...
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Value of protest begins with respectOct 25, 2017 1:00 am - I suppose I could write a short piece about being born up in often-freezing-cold Minnesota in a small working class town with limited opportunities outside of the local ...
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Editorial: Arlington police make a statement on distracted drivingOct 24, 2017 11:00 pm - Police departments are sometimes accused of being more interested in collecting fines than promoting safety. Speed traps come to mind. So do holiday roadblocks. It may n...
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Column for a bird cageOct 24, 2017 1:00 am - I don't have a bird cage, but I almost went out and bought one just so I could put her editorial of Oct. 18, "Is there hope for conservative re-tooling after Trump?," in...
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There may be no 'fix' for gun violenceOct 24, 2017 1:00 am - After one absorbs the shock and horror of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the significant question is "What is the fix?" An answer is critical because the shooter's method...
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District 15 school board treating support staff unfairlyOct 23, 2017 5:00 am - The injunction approved by Judge Neil Cohen is not only unprecedented but disenfranchises the union and divides it. The ruling makes the nurses and one on one program as...
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Employees should contribute to own retirement costsOct 23, 2017 5:00 am - In the Oct. 13 Daily Herald there is an article titled, "District 57 officials outline case for tax increase." In it assistant superintendent for finance and operations ...