Cook County Opinion
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Parents, reinforce new curfew lawFeb 22, 2008 10:00 pm - This is to all those parents out there who are choosing to ignore the new state curfew for 16- and 17-year-old drivers. Please enforce the law with your children. You ...
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Three 'M's' - media, money, momentum, helping ObamaFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Green is Director-Institute for Politics at Roosevelt University Chicago and Schaumburg Presidential nomination politics rests on the three "M's" -- money, media and mom...
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Nothing unclear about definitionsFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Let's start by defining what issues are being raised in Elgin and the rest of the United States regarding the illegal immigration controversy. First, let's define the tw...
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Guns do too kill people; ban themFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - It's true we need more effective people in government and background checks. However, the old adage that it's not guns that kill, but people, is a crock. Tell me what c...
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What if someone had been armed?Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - A killer enters a crowded megachurch in Colorado shortly after noon on Sunday, Dec. 9 and begins shooting. Other recent shootings include those at Northern Illinois Univ...
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Concealed carry safety is a fantasyFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Some people say we need to let college students have the right to carry concealed weapons so that they can protect themselves and others. Here's a possible scenario: Dea...
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Goudie's column missed the pointFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Chuck Goudie's column about the NIU shooter ("There were many red flags," Daily Herald, Feb. 16) focuses on the wrong problem. It wasn't that no one noticed that the yo...
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Seniors need help figuring out rebatesFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - The amount of the rebates the government will be sending is certainly clear, except for the seniors. From what I understand, at least the details listed in the Daily He...
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Lessons learned at NIU come back to the foreFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Jim Davis, NIU Class of '77. B.S. in Journalism. Frankly, I hadn't been thinking about that a lot lately. Until this past week. In that time, I thought more than once of...
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Not illegal, but the words still do hurtFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - In response to Ms. Dinkheller's Feb. 6 letter defending Association for Legal Americans as being against only illegal immigrants, not all Hispanics, I strongly disagree....