Cook County Opinion
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Students and First Amendment rightsJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Students and First Amendment rights This is in response to Melissa Jenco's piece on high school journalists and the First Amendment. As a current student of public polic...
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Guffaws at seat-belt award reminder of important life lessonJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - OK, I'll admit it: We journalist types are a little jaded, and occasionally we do talk somewhat frivolously about the news we cover. Case in point: On today's Page 5, we...
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Students and First Amendment rightsJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - This is in response to Melissa Jenco's piece on high school journalists and the First Amendment. As a current student of public policy, specifically education policy, I ...
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Government lacks fiscal restraintJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - "Fiscal restraint" is a dirty phrase in Cook County, Springfield and Washington D.C. these days. The sheer amount of waste, and the lack of remorse for it, is staggering...
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The questions of logic and abortionJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - The interesting letter from Richard Kaiser (Fence Post, Monday) regarding abortion encourages me to write. Mr. Kaiser's second paragraph, first of all, imagines that s...
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Actually, raw milk has many benefitsJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - The article headed "Got milk? Not if it is raw" (June 13) is erroneous and misleading. • It notes that 22 states ban sales of raw milk for human consumption, implying th...
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Give taxpayers free game ticketsJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - As a taxpayer in Elgin I was very disappointed to see the state-of-the-art softball field we built for the Chicago Bandits that supposedly was going to cost $350,000 end...
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Unemployment bill was open to abuseJun 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Congressman Mark Kirk recently published a letter to his constituents explaining his vote against a recent bill extending unemployment benefits. It is clear to me that ...
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Chances slim for evolutionJun 25, 2008 11:00 pm - This is in response to a June 2nd letter attacking the movie "Expelled." This movie deals with the intelligent design versus evolution debate. The writer states 470,000 ...
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Durbin's comment is off the markJun 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently I heard a sound bite from Sen. Dick Durbin. It was basically something close to "The hottest ring of hell is reserved for those who would verbally attack a pol...