Cook County Opinion
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Silence should not be mandatedNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - I'm writing in response to the amendment made to the Illinois Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act that requires a moment of silence at the start of each school day....
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GOP leaders do nothing after officeNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - My! My! One wonders if the conservative Republicans will ever get over having hissy fits over former Vice President Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his work ...
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Bush and Cheney must be impeachedNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Congress owes it to the citizen voters of this country to impeach both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney! For all the damage that these two have done, they should not be al...
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Twisting writer's words not rightNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - There had been two letters printed in response to my letter regarding the outbursts against Planned Parenthood. One individual felt it was necessary to attack my charact...
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No doubt at all on global warmingNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - How do you define journalistic responsibility? Must a newspaper give equal weight to both sides, regardless of an unequal amount of evidence for each side? I ask this qu...
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Lane divider ball design looks oddNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - I just noticed the newly designed lane dividers at Dundee Avenue and the Northwest Tollway in Elgin. It would look fine without all those concrete bowling ball-look ali...
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Hoping Illinois can be last on this listNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - With the articles in the news recently on the new coal-fired power plants for our state, without controls to limit or remove carbon dioxide from the exhaust, it is distu...
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Headline belies paper's own storiesNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - The headline in the Nov. 9 edition astounded me: "Ring it up for schools," followed by "New homes deliver windfall for District 158." How can the Daily Herald print a h...
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CorrectionNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - An editor's mistake created two errors in the Sunday letter by Shirley Sadjadi of Elgin. It should have read that under the Dream Act, "a student who qualifies would rec...
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Village strongly backs MainStreetNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - Over this past week there have been several occasions in which individuals have expressly stated that the village board and more specifically the mayor have decided to e...