Cook County Opinion
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This kind of money for turf is obsceneJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - In the Herald's coverage of the May District 211 board meeting, we learned: (1) that a motion to spend $8.7 million on artificial turf for the district's football fields...
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Citizens must join forces to stop CNJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - First I would like to thank Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Barack Obama, Congresswoman Melissa Bean, Mayor Karen Darch and Mayors Abboud and Weisner for their efforts to halt th...
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Inconvenienced over cough syrupJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - As an individual, it is important to me to retain certain rights that are becoming more and more restricted. One right in particular is being able to go to the store and...
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Thanks for veterans' banquetJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - On May 23, 2008 the mayor of Rolling Meadows, Ken Nelson, and the city sponsored a banquet at the Meridian for the veterans. Every one received a door prize. A fully uni...
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Thanks to all who got behind exhibitJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - To all those who helped to bring the Cost of Freedom Tribute to Schaumburg's Alexian Field this past Memorial Day Weekend, we want to say "Thank You." The villages of Sc...
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Trains have a blast while in PalatineJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - No matter what the Village of Palatine does to comply with the federal rail-crossing safety-upgrade program, the UP train engineers will never observe "quiet zones" whil...
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God considers gay sex an abominationJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - To Shelly Carlson's response to my letter, I say I don't know what Bible you're reading but mine says, "If a male lies with a male as with a woman both of them have comm...
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Fighting CN plan will take all of usJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - We are small people opposing the Canadian National railway. So how do we fight that big, arrogant company that tries to intimidate us, abuse our rights and wants to make...
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Illinois must act to save marriageJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - The often quoted statement from George Santayana "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" is relevant in the attempts today to destroy traditional marriage, t...
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Navarrette unfair in Obama criticismJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Columnist Ruben Navarrette bemoans Barack Obama's exit from his Trinity Church as being the act of a politician and turning his back on the people who worship there. How...