Cook County Opinion
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Count ER nurses among true heroesOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Every day we read about our heroes and their amazing feats of courage and strength. Today's culture emulates entertainers, and athletes even, with the daily reports of t...
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A bad precedent hereOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Arguing that creating a new town is a lot of work seems a bit bizarre when the person making the argument is Patsy Smith, the woman who led incorporation efforts and the...
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Soapbox: Learn from a lucky breakOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Randall Visor should feel lucky. The Batavia man, who is responsible for the deaths of four people 10 years ago in a drunken-driving accident, and for driving without a ...
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Soapbox: Slow it downOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - State transportation officials say a stretch of Route 83 through Prospect Heights has neither enough accidents nor driveways to merit lowering the speed limit from 40 mp...
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Appalling display of racism in LombardOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - A terrible incident took place the morning of Oct. 8. A family who recently moved to Lombard had racial slurs and attacks painted on their property. However, this is not...
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Should Bob be more like Todd?Oct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Perhaps Bob Schillerstrom should be more like Todd Stroger. Stroger, the Cook County Board chairman, wants to bail out the county from its financial morass by doubling t...
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Turkish genocide must be recalledOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - I read with interest how Congress is planning, through a non-binding resolution, to finally label an atrocity for what it truly was -- genocide. It was during the First...
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Christian faith heart of true moralityOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - In an Oct. 13 letter, Robert B. Morgan of Elburn asserted that a belief in God is not necessary for morality, that religion has done more harm than good for society and ...
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Use screenings for early detectionOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - I am pleased that Gov. Rod Blagojevich has taken on the fight against breast cancer. The expanded Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program will give more than 261,000...
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Elgin police officer nothing but lazyOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - I am an ex-police officer who earned three commendations for exemplary performance of duty and was shot once in the line of duty. Recently, I was involved in a car acc...