Cook County Opinion
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High casino bid can't be top criterionNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - A state with a multibillion-dollar deficit. A highly sought gambling casino license that's up for bid, with the highest offer to the state so far at nearly a half-billio...
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Obama and his team need our prayersNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - As our nation faces moral, financial and unemployment crisis, our newly elected president and his cabinet have their work cut out for them. However, it will take the hel...
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Fly the U.S. flag as a salute to veteransNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - "We don't want to be heroes, but it's nice to know people appreciate what we did," said Vietnam veteran Fred Wilhelm. As I drove through my neighborhood to work on Vete...
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What Obama victory says about AmericaNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - I was 15 and a sophomore at Zion Benton High School when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Shortly thereafter, race riots broke out in our cafeteria during lunch...
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Hasn't been sanitary district for 10 yearsNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Regarding your headline of Wednesday, Nov. 5, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago enthusiastically welcomes it incumbents Frank Avila, Kathleen Th...
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Senior center asking city to revisit cutsNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Recently the Des Plaines City Council deleted support to the Des Plaines senior center for the $40,000 which had been in the 2009 budget. There is no question that budge...
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An anonymous act of great kindnessNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the kind and anonymous woman who not only retrieved my purse from the cart I left it in, in the parking lot; but also, ...
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Happy to be with Buddy FoundationNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - After retiring from 40 years of nursing, I decided to volunteer some time for animals. I first went to that shelter in Bloomingdale, which I am so relieved to read has f...
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McCain simply was not acceptableNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - The losers of this election just can't seem to accept the fact that the people have voted and John McCain was not acceptable. The people didn't want another four years ...
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Recycling good for planet, and you, tooNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Do you want to help save the world? Well, one way is to recycle. I think everyone should recycle, young or old, man or woman, boy or girl. There are no excuses why you s...