Cook County Opinion
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Would we want our schools to go back?Dec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - While reading the angry letters from citizens and sometimes defensive letters from teachers about salaries, pensions, referendums, strikes and test results, I began to t...
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Force accountability at all levels by voteDec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - When are we, the voters, going to hold our mayor, council members, state legislators and members of Congress accountable? The mayor and council members of Elgin agreed t...
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Time to close superintendent gender gapDec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - It's hard to believe on the cusp of 2008 that a female former math teacher would be asked while interviewing for a superintendent's job whether she could handle a school...
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Rethink wisdom of expanded gamblingDec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - I recently attended the Union League Club of Chicago Public Affairs Forum on gaming expansion. So I read with interest your stories on Gov. Blagojevich's campaign financ...
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Smokers are not free to share smokeDec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - "Smoking ban cuts personal freedom" (Daily Herald, Dec 22). I can't believe the Herald still prints letters with nothing to offer but some smoker's archaic argument in ...
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Study before 'fixing' nation into oblivionDec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - Nary a day goes by without a media story about the looming global warming crisis. Well, well. Now comes news from the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee th...
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Decade of looking the other wayDec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - I would like to nominate this decade, the 2000s, as the Look-the-Other-Way Decade. Of course, we all remember the Me Decade and the Not-Me Decade. Welcome to the Look-t...
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Writer's all wrong about Mark KirkDec 26, 2007 10:00 pm - This is in response to a letter written by Chet Farley regarding U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk's vote on the Children's Health Insurance (SCHIP). This letter appeared in the Dec....
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Congress has worse issues than steroidsDec 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Can someone tell me what's wrong with our elected representatives? Our country is in a downhill slide. Inflation is setting in. We have immigration problems of great ma...
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The will of God supercedes oursDec 26, 2007 10:00 pm - In response to Barbara Muehlhausen's Dec. 10 letter on anti-choice: I will attempt to answer your question, but first I need to establish the following: U.S. Constitutio...