Cook County Opinion
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Why not wait until party convention?Apr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Why all the hullabaloo about which Democratic candidate gets the most delegates? The convention, that's the thing. Paul Taulbee Schaumburg ...
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Don't create forest out of a single treeApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Regarding the incident involving Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski. I believe this isan overreaction as well as an opportunity to cause alarm in the midst...
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Get your TV converter couponsApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - If your television is not digital ready or connected to a cable or satellite system, it will not work after Feb. 17, 2009 when all TV broadcasting must be digital. The ...
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The kaleidoscope of the Fence PostApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - For the past several years, scores of my letters to major national papers have been published, from New York to California, and yet none of these portray the kaleidoscop...
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Superdelegates are hardly democraticApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Democratic Party has devised a reliance on "super-delegates" to determine who will be their candidate for president. These super-delegates are NOT elected nor voted ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Old pols never leaveApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When longtime Kane County Board member Jan Carlson of Elburn stepped down early, resigning from the board this week after being defeated in the Republican primary, he le...
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If we look, we can find a cure for warApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In my hometown of Lake Placid in the early '40s, I met Lowell Thomas, the famous radio broadcaster on the ski slopes. In 1946, I met William Shirer, author of "Berlin D...
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Oberweis shows he is not for peopleApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - In a recent column, (March 18), Dennis Hastert said Jim Oberweis "has to really remake himself in the public's eye." Maybe Mr. Oberweis, who ran and endorsed Congressio...
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Oberweis, Lincoln comparison bizarreApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I choked a bit on my coffee Sunday morning reading L. Dean Hufsey's letter equating Jim Oberweis' candidacies to Abraham Lincoln's. Lincoln's first run for state office...
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Use county cash on feral cat problemApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - This is in regards to the April 3 view, "Take responsibility when taking a pet." What a wonderful world this would be if people would be more responsible. I encounter ir...