Cook County Opinion
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Sounds like dose of reality is neededMay 08, 2009 11:00 pm - The news that Citigroup is seeking permission from Treasury Secretary Geithner to pay bonuses in part to deal with employees threatening to leave because of pay restrict...
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Government lacks faith in AmericansMay 08, 2009 11:00 pm - I do not think that this is the change that we can all believe in. From the bailouts of the banks and corporations, to the failure of the mainstream media to ask hard qu...
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Sometimes you have to call it what it isMay 08, 2009 11:00 pm - According to the news, it's been reported that we may not refer to this illness as the "Swine Flu." Apparently it is politically incorrect. It is offensive to the pork...
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Volunteering ... selfless or selfish?May 07, 2009 11:00 pm - I had a free lunch on April 30. The Gail Borden Library was honoring volunteers with a luncheon. For the second year in a row I was recognized as having volunteered the ...
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God's law is clear: no to gay marriageMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Dave Crost's recent topic was "Relax, gay marriage is no big deal." You have dismissed rather easily from your societal agenda an important issue of a lawful marriage be...
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No way is stem cell a fetus. It's a cellMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Hats off to George Blinick, whose excellent letter was criticized by Kathleen Muhr in a recent Fence Post. Ms. Muhr seemed upset that Mr. Blinick had suggested that thos...
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Rethink move to DuComm, RoselleMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - On April 15, the Roselle Police Telecommunicators unit was informed that the village was looking into consolidating the dispatch unit and going to DuComm in Glendale Hei...
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Where did all our money go, Mr. Gov.?May 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The new governor is on his campaign to push the new tax increase. One of his pitches is that all Illinoisans will have to pitch in. Illinois owes excessive amounts of mo...
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Time to sink or swim, CTAMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - There is no reason that a monopoly like the CTA cannot be profitable on its own. They need to build a working business model, investigate theft and corruption, and (here...
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Flu hysteria much ado about nothingMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - People tend to be lemmings. Once again the media has the masses of people worked up into a hysteria over the killer swine flu. Emergency rooms are overrun with people wh...