Cook County Opinion
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Data contradicts global warmingApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - At least once a week, the Herald publishes a letter from someone who has taken up the Al Gore line that global warming is a cataclysmic planetary emergency and we must t...
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Drivers, watch out for motorcyclesApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Now is a good time to remind drivers that they need to watch out for motorcycles on the road now that the warm weather is here. Please remember that motorcycles have th...
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Police must take split-second actionApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - I would like to comment on "Why didn't police just use a Taser" (March 7). First of all, police officers put themselves in danger every time they put on a uniform and l...
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Hollywood slips further into excessApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - It's taken a number of years but the recent writers strike convinced me the world can do without present-day Hollywood and its poor excuse for actors, comedians, and non...
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Catholics are not to blame for abuseApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - In reply to Connie Pohlman's attack on the Catholic Church, I would first want to tell her to remember that the perpetrators she refers to were Catholic priests and my g...
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Justice finally prevails on youthful mistakeApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The test of any experience in the judicial system is simple enough. In the end, was the disposition fair? For a South Elgin youth first caught up in that system in 2002 ...
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Planned music cuts at Hersey not wiseApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Why cut a music program that provides opportunities for over 100 students and not one like varsity basketball in which only eight or 10 students get to play? Just wonder...
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Quit picking on firefighters, policeApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - As I read the editorial about the impact of police and fire pensions, I became increasingly upset because it appears the whoever authored it was biased against public se...
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A bagged paper wrapped in ironyApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems a bit ironic that my newspaper, with the front page article about the horrors of plastic bags, arrived on my doorstep in a plastic bag. M. Altman Buffalo Grove ...
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Leashes are for the safety of dog, tooApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - I am familiar with the location of the Route 31 open area now used as a dog park. Several years ago, I would drive past this spot and there was hardly a car in the parki...