Cook County Opinion
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Limit CEO pay, add strings to bailoutsDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - On Nov. 18 appeared yet another editorial by George Will. Right Wing World is pretty adamant these days that there should be no $25 billion bailout of the Big Three auto...
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Incompetence is root of Big 3 issueDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Cal Thomas blames the Democrats and the UAW for the auto industry's latest woes. Yet he conveniently fails to mention that for the past seven years it was a Republican P...
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Time to stop village from raising taxesDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - To my fellow residents of Arlington Heights: As you may or may not know, on Nov. 17 the Village President and the board of trustees tried to impose a real estate tax inc...
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Time to abolish the 'automatic' increasesDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - The Inverness Park District board held a Dec. 1 meeting to vote on the tax levy for 2008. Information passed to commissioners contained the 5 percent maximum tax increas...
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Finish contract with NSSEO teachersDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - As a product of school districts 15, 25 and 214, I write on behalf of the staff and students, present and future, as well as a stepparent of a former Northwest Suburban ...
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Kudos to library for acting responsiblyDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Last night, Nov 25th, I attended the finance committee of the Library Board to voice my concern over the library's portion of the proposed 3.75 percent tax levy on the c...
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CN/EJ&E merger would tie up trafficDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I am against the CN railway company decision to merge with the EJ&E railroad company. Even though it would be good financially for the company to merge to alleviate the ...
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Plea for Ryan sparks larger issueDec 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Not surprisingly, the people working on behalf of George Ryan are set to make a plea to the outgoing president for his release. Unfortunately, this process of pardons by...
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Promises already out of the spotlightDec 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Surprise! With 70 days to go before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama scratched his campaign promises from his Web site. Is the economy worse than when he made...
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Palin mistreated during campaignDec 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The treatment that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin received from the media and the democratic press interviewers "gotcha" thugs was disgusting. I wonder if Sara...