Cook County Opinion
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Question for marchersJan 27, 2017 12:00 am - I have one question for the people protesting the presidency of Donald J. Trump: Did you vote? William G. Dearhammer Arlington Heights ...
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Listen to marchers with your heartJan 27, 2017 12:00 am - I am a 72-year-old woman, a child of the Sixties. I never protested, never marched, until now. A Million Woman March in Washington D.C.. What will it feel like? What wil...
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Good time to check your CO monitorsJan 26, 2017 11:01 pm - A sudden blaring voice: "There is carbon monoxide present. Check your monitor." The message was repeated several times. It was in the middle of an ordinary weekend day w...
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Media needs reality checkJan 26, 2017 12:00 am - I'm just a regular guy watching the media over the weekend coverage of the "demonstrations" and I am amazed how misreported events were. Total media bias. No wonder jour...
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What now for changing tax provision?Jan 26, 2017 12:00 am - As candidates, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton advocated raising the income tax rate on carried interest. For those not aware, this IRS provision allows hedge-fund...
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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 ...