Cook County Opinion
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Putting gun rights over public safetyOct 19, 2017 1:00 am - To the diehard gun rights people, the unfettered right to own and use firearms seems to be more important than public safety. I have a FOID card, which allows me to buy ...
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Gun money and politicsOct 19, 2017 1:00 am - Kudos to the people who showed up to protest the Lake County GOP's auction of guns last Friday, where they were auctioning off - among other weapons - a semiautomatic li...
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A defiant Tom PettyOct 18, 2017 1:00 am - Years ago, a DJ out of Chicago summed up the song "I Won't Back Down" with a remark, "A defiant Tom Petty." The phrasing and sense of his words seemed certainly perfect ...
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A defiant Tom PettyOct 18, 2017 1:00 am - Years ago, a DJ out of Chicago summed up the song "I Won't Back Down" with a remark, "A defiant Tom Petty." The phrasing and sense of his words seemed certainly perfect ...
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Congress should target credit card interestOct 18, 2017 1:00 am - If our Congress really wanted to help the middle class, then they should pass legislation to reign in the usurious interest rates charged by credit card issuers. Why sho...
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Congress should target credit card interest ratesOct 18, 2017 1:00 am - If our Congress really wanted to help the middle class, then they should pass legislation to reign in the usurious interest rates charged by credit card issuers. Why sho...
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Thank you, senatorOct 18, 2017 1:00 am - Our thanks to Sen. Corker for his "intestinal fortitude" to speak up. The other Republican senators are what we call "chickens." Sara Gin Arlington Heights ...
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Time to complete approval of ERAOct 17, 2017 1:00 am - We have been considering the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution for 94 years. It's time to wind up this unfinished business. The proposed ERA says ...
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Time to reset on Lombard library planOct 17, 2017 12:01 am - While Lombard voters, in November 2016 mind you, approved an unprecedented increase in the tax rate for the Helen Plum Library District here we are nearly a year later w...
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Putting cell tower in Rolling Meadows park is all wrongOct 16, 2017 5:00 am - The Rolling Meadows Park Board has entered into a contract with Verizon to lease park land for a 75-foot cell tower, to be located on a footprint the size of an original...