Cook County Opinion
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Health insurance is not affordableNov 21, 2016 12:00 am - I agree with anyone who says health insurance is not affordable. JoAnne Lee says she's self-employed, but I'm not employed at all. I lost my job 11 months ago and could ...
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'Locker-room' banter not so harmlessNov 21, 2016 12:00 am - When I was in my twenties, I lived with a girlfriend on the near north side of Chicago. It was a nice neighborhood of two flats not far from the Steppenwolf Theatre. We...
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Yes, there are checks on presidential powerNov 21, 2016 12:00 am - With all due respect to Mr. Holland's opinion in his letter from Arlington Heights … Congress IS a complete check on the president. That's how our Founding Fathers estab...
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Again we use children as an excuseNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - Cook County Commissioner Tony Preckwinkle cast the decisive vote in favor of adding a tax of one cent per ounce on soft drink beverages sold within the county. These ine...
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Consider consequences of tighter immigrationNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - I'm watching a young Mexican man diligently washing dishes and cleaning tables, and I think to myself, "Why would we want to deport this person?" He's just trying to ear...
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Only herself to blameNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - Rejecting someone who should have been president? I said it all along that President Obama decided that the people should be the arbiter on Hillary's guilt or innocence....
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History teaches us to expect surprisesNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - Trump has won. Protests have broken out. Other countries are worried. It seems a bit like 1860. The country was falling apart. War had already been going on in Missour...
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'Response bias' may have misled pollsNov 19, 2016 12:00 am - Overall, the majority of polling organizations were wrong about support for Mrs. Clinton compared to that for Mr. Trump. One explanation is that the polling organization...
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There's difference between winning, rightNov 18, 2016 12:00 am - In the midst of all the extreme acrimony of this approaching holiday season of Thanksgiving and Christmas joy. I remember something I read only last month: "Being on the...
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We've now become two AmericasNov 18, 2016 12:00 am - In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln redefined what it means to be an American. He wrote "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continen...