Cook County Opinion
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Vote was a down payment to MadiganJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - Just in case you missed it, on Jan. 11, Michelle Mussman made her first installment payment to House Speaker Michael Madigan. She voted again, for the fourth time, to el...
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GOP not interested in health care reformJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - Rep. Paul Ryan says the Republicans have solid plans to replace Obamacare, also known as ACA, to those who don't realize they are two names for the same program. Ryan su...
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Let's try incentivesJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - Since the people do not seem to want the suggestion of free toll lanes with three occupants, I suggest it may be more popular to arrange a system whereby taxes are reduc...
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Editorial on towns' merger went off railsJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - The Jan. 11 editorial, "A mysterious and disruptive 'stunt,'" was promising when it recognized, "Too often, one candidate … hopes to derail competition by getting a chal...
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'Clean' campaigns just can't winJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - While I would have preferred to have John Kasich or Marco Rubio as president, unfortunately in America, politics have gotten so "dirty" that only someone like Donald Tru...
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We need political bias ratingsJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - The Daily Herald, Our View, has now spoken twice about public anger over biased reporting. So much of this is a reflection of our political rhetoric of the day. I had ho...
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Trump dossierJan 21, 2017 12:00 am - Does anyone who followed the news in 2016 and/or followed the life, career and escapades of Donald Trump actually think the Russians do not have a dossier of compromisin...
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'Truth' as an abstractionJan 19, 2017 12:00 am - Bravo re: the editorial in Sunday's Herald's edition defending CNN's coverage of Trump's alleged Russia/Putin connection. I saw some of the Anderson Cooper interview of ...
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Use 'found' money for rural schoolsJan 19, 2017 12:00 am - Volkswagen is remitting 4.3 billion "found" dollars to American people they "duped." Let's make America great. Fund technology in rural education in America with the win...
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Statistics that show liberal bias in the pressJan 18, 2017 12:00 am - I read George Peternel's view in your paper about "The myth of liberal bias in the press." I felt it was a thoughtful point of view, even though I mostly disagreed with ...