Cook County Opinion
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Since Pelosi, things actually got worseApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In her triumphant ascendancy to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi announced things were going to be different. Many will recall she made lots of promises in those he...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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The 'surge' in Iraq is not workingApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - To all of you positive Republicans, it would seem the last few weeks have proven that the so-called "surge" in Iraq is not working. On top of all that, it would seem li...
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Saturday Soapbox: Thanks for thinking of themApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the lesser publicized aspects of John and Rita Canning's generous donation to Northwest Community Hospital is worth a closer look. Part of their $1 million contri...
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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...