Cook County Opinion
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State should ban driving while textingSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - When can Illinois be a leader and not a follower? How many more avoidable accidents, injuries and deaths must occur before the General Assembly bans the use of wireless ...
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Cycling commuters have opened our eyesSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - For those who drive to work, it may not be surprising that the Chicago area clocks in some of the highest average travel times to work in the nation. In a 2005 ranking o...
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'Going green' can save public's green, tooSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Not since the late 1960s and early 1970s has there been such focus on the environment and what could be done to protect it. Pollution control and energy conservation hav...
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Getting it right … againAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg's special events coordinator Roxane Benvenuti seems to have a knack for these things. While it might seem to some like a no-brainer to invite returning soldie...
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Rotate troops out of South KoreaAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - In response to a recent Associated Press article regarding the release of the South Korean hostages, I met with two of my fellow servicemen from the Korean War, and we t...
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Get rid of the stripesAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - It's good to see the inmates working on the grounds of the Kane County jail, but their garb of broad gray stripes is reminiscent of the 1932 film "I Am a Fugitive from a...
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This contrast stingsAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - This contrast stings While the DuPage County Board wrings its hands over how to handle a budget catastrophe, the DuPage County Forest Preserve District is in the financi...
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Age of enlightenment?Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs says he panicked after crashing his high, high-end car into a light pole at 3 in the morning and left the scene to "avoid a scene."...
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U.S. cannot afford to export jobsAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Sara Bryant nailed it with her Aug. 4 letter to the editor. I'm sure she had more to say, but did not want to exceed the allowed number of words. For example, every job ...
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We have socialized medicine right nowAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - The words "socialized medicine" make doctors and drug companies quake with fear because it may curb their unbridled profiteering. That's supposed to be bad? We have soci...