Cook County Opinion
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Too much clout for one teenagerOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - As a taxpayer in High School District 214 since 1959, I was surprised to see that a 14-year-old student at Buffalo Grove High School could rule on what should or shouldn...
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Tucker puts blame in the wrong placeOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Columnist Cynthia Tucker again missed the point on where to blame the way things are for the American economy. First, we let jobs, manufacturing, whatever, be outsourced...
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Why no scrubbers on new state plants?Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - In this day of national and international scientific concern about climate change and global warming, why is Illinois proposing at least five new conventional coal-fired...
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Better resource use for anti-abortionistsOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Wouldn't the time, money and resources being spent by the anti-abortion group to prevent an abortion clinic from opening in Aurora be better spent on children already bo...
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Why does one teen get to set policy?Oct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Re: the Sept. 20 article headlined "Atheist's daughter takes own stand at school" Since when does the voice of a single high school freshman get to dictate the policy of...
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Backbone lost at Buffalo GroveOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - The culture of this once blue ribbon school is sliding down the ladder. How can this happen in such a short time span of five years? We heard of the 2006 school book deb...
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Time to enact the USA COWARD ActOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - With our nation-building experiment in Iraq not exactly going according to plan and our troop surge not exactly getting the desired results as yet, I would like to submi...
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Vegan teacher deserved an awardOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - It's a pity that the Fox River Grove School Board chose to fire Dave Warwak - the art teacher who urged his students to go vegan. They should have given him an award and...
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This argument is simply incongruousOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - As an animal lover who has rescued more dogs than I can count, I abhor what Michael Vick did. As a lover of babies, I abhor even more what is being done in our country ...
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Where, exactly, was so-called coercion?Oct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - I am responding to the people who have written in over the past week to denounce the Buffalo Grove High School atheist girl, and the decision to not have "God Bless Amer...