Cook County Opinion
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Make summer safer, reject gang activityApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - We are worried about our safety in our neighborhoods of Carpentersville this summer. To be honest, we are scared and concerned about the future of our community. We can...
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Who wouldn't want their own home?Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - As I see an increasing numbers of mortgage foreclosures and newly homeless families, I become nostalgic about the experience my husband and I faced as we bought our firs...
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Lombard library's in a great locationApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - In response to a letter by Robert Biddle suggesting that Lombard's Helen Plum Library move to Main and Parkside, I would submit that the best asset the library possesses...
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Bakers Square still open for businessApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Your headline for the article concerning Bakers Square filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Area Bakers Square restaurants close as parent declares bankruptcy) sure scared ...
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Chronicling elusive standard of judgment by 'content of character'Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Random thoughts: Sometimes the news is its own object lesson. Daily Herald Staff Writer Emily Krone worked for a week and a half to find and interview suburbanites who c...
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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...