Cook County Opinion
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Bean can help small businessesOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - As chair of the Small Business Subcommittee of the House Tax and Finance Committee, Melissa Bean has the opportunity to introduce and influence legislation important to ...
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Waller has a proven recordOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I have been a voting resident of Lake County since 1952. I have seen many elected officials come and go during that time period, many of whom served the county with grea...
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Kirk fights wasteful spendingOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to commend Congressman Mark Kirk for holding the line on wasteful spending and pork. Kirk is the only member of the appropriations committee, the Congressio...
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Kirk commended for education fightOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to commend Mark Kirk for his essential work on education for the underprivileged. Impact aid is the money the federal government pays to schools that educat...
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Mailers misleading on abortion issueOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Personal PAC has mailed area voters information based on a blatant lie, appealing to emotions rather than reason or truth. Many Lake County voters received this PAC mail...
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Birkett taken to task for funding stanceOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Regarding your article, "DuPage Democrats urge election attorney's ouster..." I am greatly relieved that DuPage County State's Attorney Joseph Birkett said it's "not ill...
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Mailer smeared Congressman KirkOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - In the past few weeks my mailbox has been flooded by misleading fliers from a group calling itself "Patriot Majority Midwest." The first few peddled the same lie: that M...
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Beware members of the 'Turncoat' PartyOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Paul Froehlich and Fred Crespo. Many loyal Republicans worked to get them elected because we believed they had the same values and goals as we did. We gave them one of t...
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Why Obama's wrong for our economyOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - It was recently documented that Barack Obama was the biggest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac since his election to the Senate. Associat...
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Vets have no better friend than KirkOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of false information flying around about Congressman Mark Kirk's record on veterans. Dan Seals' outrageous television ...