Cook County Opinion
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Shakespeare revisitedAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - A writer to the Daily Herald is concerned about too much coverage of gay issues, and cites Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as an example of love between a man and woman. ...
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Elites focus on politics while ignoring real issuesAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - For the past eight years, we have had a foreign policy based in appeasement, extremely questionable over-regulated economic policies and an agenda bent on changing and r...
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Funding needed for Alzheimer's researchAug 28, 2017 1:00 am - There are more than 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease and more than 15 million unpaid caregivers. When my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2010...
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Keep controls on free-speech rightsAug 28, 2017 1:00 am - The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right of free speech and the right to peaceably assemble. Many read this Amendment as an absolute right. Not true...
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Walls don't have a good record of successAug 28, 2017 1:00 am - Our president recommends extending the wall between Mexico and the U.S. to prevent undocumented foreign nationals, looking for a better life, from entering the country. ...
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'Free' health care would have a very high priceAug 28, 2017 1:00 am - Twenty-five years ago, I was the general manager of a small industrial machinery company. The owner retired and sold the company to a European conglomerate. When the CEO...
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Tearing down history, along with statuesAug 28, 2017 12:01 am - Slavery was bad. Yes, but to deny or rewrite our history is also bad. When I saw the video of them bringing down the statue of Lee, my first thought was, we have come fu...
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Editorial: Police need to get creative to connect with residentsAug 27, 2017 11:00 pm - The Lake County Sheriff's Office participation in a live cable show was not about making reality TV stars out of the 10 deputies and detectives who appeared on camera. N...
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We must condemn anti-American ideologiesAug 27, 2017 1:00 am - Loud alarms should be ringing to alert all of us about the dangers of what happened in Charlottesville. Hate-filled people marched in Nazi regalia, shouting out their an...
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Qualifications, not wallets, are importantAug 27, 2017 1:00 am - I recently attended a forum of the Democratic gubernatorial candidates. I took the opportunity at this forum to ask candidate J.B. Pritzker a question about the large am...