Cook County Opinion
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We must get control of nuclear-waste storageJan 26, 2017 12:00 am - I recently saw a TV news program with the Mayor of Zion expressing his concern about the problem of two shutdown ComEd/Excelon nuclear reactors in his district and accum...
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Campton Hills' poor oversight on centerJan 25, 2017 11:01 pm - On Jan. 16, 2013, the Herald published a letter of mine headlined, "Grudging support for the KIVA annexation." The KIVA Group was requesting annexation of the Glenwood ...
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Still work to be done on eliminating biasJan 25, 2017 12:00 am - In recent editorials, the Daily Herald tried to convince us that there is no bias in its reporting nor that of most other media. Yet on your Jan. 16 front page, you prin...
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Time to become vegansJan 25, 2017 12:00 am - The complete takeover of our nation's capital by inhumane right-wing Republicans is going to be extremely detrimental to conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists ...
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Editorial: New Twitter episodes show harm of ridicule, value of compassionJan 23, 2017 10:00 pm - Dathan Paterno has resigned from the school board of Park Ridge-Niles Elementary School District 64, and he wasn't planning to run for re-election this April anyway, so ...
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Report didn't deserve attentionJan 23, 2017 12:00 am - On Jan. 11, the Daily Herald besmirched itself in promulgating a completely unsubstantiated report on the supposed behavior of Donald Trump, and making it the front-page...
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Condemning ISIS but killing babies?Jan 23, 2017 12:00 am - I am writing in response to a letter from Connie Schultz published in the Herald several weeks ago. In her letter, she laments the state of affairs in 1957 when she was ...
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Headline could give misleading impressionJan 23, 2017 12:00 am - In response to a recent "Our View" editorial, "When the fake news label is fake, It was Trump, not CNN who disregarded the truth": Using this headline you give a specif...
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Thankful for the Electoral CollegeJan 23, 2017 12:00 am - I am writing in response to "Trump could have won the big states" by Thomas Roth in your opinion section of the Daily Herald, on Monday Jan. 16. I want to thank Mr. Rot...
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Ideas from the left are the problemJan 23, 2017 12:00 am - With regard to Mark Muehlausen's assertion that your paper leaves the voice of the right wing unchecked, two comments are in order. First, he fails to provide a single e...