Cook County Opinion
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Liberals just define success differentlyMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Liberals do not hate success, Mr. Falk (Fence Post, May 10), we just define it differently than you do. For us, "success" is not about making obscene profits from the sa...
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In difficult times, use freedom wiselyMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - I've often seen the idea of freedom depicted by an eagle soaring in the open sky or a horse running with head held high across the open plain. But I also know that unles...
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Get out of car and save gas expensesMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A good way to save gasoline: Cut out the drive-through. Park that car and go to the bank and McDonald's, etc. Plus, the walking would be good for you. Eugene Walek Sc...
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Say no to ComEd's proposed rate hikeMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - As a customer of ComEd, I oppose the rate hike. Between rising gas prices, and other utility bills, most people barely make enough to get by. If the rate hike is passed ...
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Clinton's comment racist, self-servingMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Hillary Clinton told USA Today that she was the candidate favored by "hard-working Americans, white Americans." I am a hard-working white American and I am voting for O...
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Well then, liberals love George Bush!May 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Correspondent Charles Falk asked why liberals hate success (Fencepost, May 10). If we are to accept Mr. Falk's premise that liberals actually do hate success, then they ...
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Thanks Garrett for fighting pay raises<May 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Thank you, Sen. Susan Garrett. It is not too often that a member of the General Assembly, like yourself, puts the people of Illinois before themselves. Our state, as we...
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The cost of being world's policemanMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In an otherwise question-begging letter, reader B. Gustafson (May 3) raises an issue of enormous importance that is too often forgotten these days. "Our country," she s...
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Give Rep. Franks real election recallMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the May 9 Guest View, Democrat state Rep. Jack Franks expresses his consternation over the lack of the Democrat-controlled state Senate from passing HJRCA 28 giving v...
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How will we pay our pension debt?May 11, 2008 11:00 pm - I went to the Village of Arlington Heights budget meetings in March and I asked President Mulder how she was planning to resolve the growing deficit that the village owe...