Cook County Opinion
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Honored Kirk is helping IsraelAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Iran's saber-rattling has been downright terrifying lately. The terrorist state recently tested a new class of missile that is capable of hitting Israel. A Shahab-3 miss...
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Mayor makes case for home ruleAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Home Rule is coming to Prospect Heights. I'd like to take this opportunity to write about my vision for home rule and respond to Bonnie Guiffaut's letter last week. She ...
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Instead of boycotts, try charter schoolsAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently, Sen. James Meeks has been making headlines, encouraging inner city children to boycott their first day of school to try signing up at New Trier in protest of t...
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Support move to universal health careAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Every industrialized country, except the U.S., has a system that provides health care for all their citizens. According to the Institute of Medicine, in the U.S 18,000 p...
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U-46 bias suit could be reversedAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - After reading "Frivolous suit costs U-46 school money," I couldn't have said it any better than Dick Daniels. He hit the nail right on the head when stating that he coul...
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Remembering how important labor isAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - On Labor Day, we remember the many positive achievements of organized labor in the United States. The labor movement is responsible for America's strong middle class by ...
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MSNBC did poor job with conventionAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - MSNBC's coverage of the Democratic Convention was atrocious. Members of the MSNBC team all should be ashamed and stop calling yourselves journalists. I wanted to hear t...
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Kirk helps protect precious resourceAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Lake Michigan is the single largest supply of freshwater in the world. It provides drinking water to most of the Chicago area and is a beautiful, integral part of our co...
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Her unique idea for Arlington MarketAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Here's an idea for the Arlington Market: an amusement park! It could be called "The Garden of Weed-On." There already is Market Mountain, Lake Dryden, the Dryden Desert,...
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Rail deal threatens Barrington's waterAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - The ramifications of the acquisition of the EJ&E by Canadian National Railway are devastating. People in the Barrington area are 100 percent dependent on shallow ground...