Cook County Opinion
-
What if you needed stem cell treatment?May 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Recently a writer emphatically proclaimed that they would refuse a lifesaving treatment that resulted from research on embryonic stem cells (forget that you probably wou...
-
Government lacks faith in AmericansMay 06, 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...
-
Promises mean little in face of such hateMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The charismatic President campaigned on a new kind of bipartisanship. He has and will continue to find out that the Bush haters have an increasing number of Obama haters...
-
In God we should trustMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - We are approaching the National Day of Prayer on Thursday. Our beloved America is in deep trouble on many fronts. The negatives we now experience are the result of aban...
-
Fannie and Freddie just as bad as AIGMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - After the article appeared in the Daily Herald about millions of dollars of bonuses to be paid out by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, I waited for the expected storm of publ...
-
Be careful stewards of public's trustMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - One newly elected mayor fired the help. One new trustee almost swore in frustration. Other newly elected leaders took the helm far more quietly this week with pledges t...
-
Another president ignores Armenian genocideMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - It was with disappointment that I read Calvin Woodward's article on Barack Obama's new and expected stance on the Armenian Genocide. He refuses to use the word genocide ...
-
Sorry to see you go, PaulaMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Regrettably, Dundee Township residents no longer have a great public servant who worked hard and brought logic to first West Dundee and then the Dundee Township board of...
-
Cook action sends message on taxesMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - It may prove to be more symbol than substance, but a very attention-getting symbol it is. On Tuesday, the Cook County Board, all too often a body that merely shifts to t...
-
Judge Obama invite same as Bush inviteMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Some students and alumni seem more than a little upset about the invitation for President Obama to speak at Notre Dame University and are even calling for the president ...