Cook County Opinion
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What took so long?Oct 27, 2017 1:00 am - I'm 74 years old and have been aware of the existence of the "casting couch" in Hollywood all my adult life. So, in all these years, why haven't outspoken actresses like...
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Sad ironiesOct 27, 2017 1:00 am - There is nothing so dangerous as a bullying coward trying to convince everyone that is trying desperately to convince everyone that he is not a bullying coward when ever...
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Poor quality road workOct 27, 2017 1:00 am - I'd like to commend Plote and the state of Illinois on a job well botched. The roadway from east of Harper College east to Golf Road has recently been completely resurf...
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Abandoning Girl ScoutsOct 26, 2017 1:00 am - The fact that the Boy Scouts of America is now allowing girls to enter is more an act of condescension to the Girl Scout organization than it is an uplifting story of ge...
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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...