Cook County Opinion
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Is Electoral College good or bad thing?Apr 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Bill Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, yet he was elected president because he won the majority of the Electoral College vote...
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Worry about real judgment issueApr 13, 2008 11:00 pm - In the week leading up to the five-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, the media went bonkers over the sound-bite comments by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor...
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Architects still very much neededApr 13, 2008 11:00 pm - I was disappointed in the article in the March 28 issue about a group of Rolling Meadows students who designed a new fire station for Rolling Meadows. Disappointed becau...
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Don't cut Hersey's guitar programApr 13, 2008 11:00 pm - I am saddened by the news that John Hersey High School would like to reduce the orchestra director's position to part-time by cutting the guitar programs that he is also...
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Good sense and free speech lost amid all the contrived rancorApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Even after nearly a quarter-century in the news business, there remain moments when I want to stand on my desk screaming, "Have you people lost your ever-lovin' minds?" ...
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Higher priorities than Wrigley FieldApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - I was born a few steps away at Illinois Masonic Hospital and as a young child grew up in the shadow of Wrigley Field. I am a lifelong Cub fan (even though I split White...
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Find ways to rescue raptor programApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - DuPage County residents have a great love for the outdoors; the woods, wetlands and the animals that inhabit these environs. That has been registered in consistent vot...
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No Olympic venues on our local landsApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - No Olympic venues on our local lands Regarding the April 8 Daily Herald story on new candidates opposing incumbent commissioners, we at Voters For Preservation believe o...
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End debt for Third World countriesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - This is an open letter to U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam. Neil was in the band and orchestra and Mark was a towne crier. Our paths diverged since graduating as Grens, but now, ...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...