Cook County Opinion
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Delays in Ryan case are embarrassingAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - George Ryan can't get his affairs in order in 72 hours? He's had 16 months! How many other convicted felons can boast that amount of interminable delay? Oh, and I didn'...
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Dist. 303 should focus on the basicAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - I was sitting with a group of parents last weekend discussing D303 and not one parent in the room had anything positive to say about our district. We were rehashing some...
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Reject phony games for the 14th DistrictAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Let's stop the games in the 14th Congressional District. While still unconfirmed by the congressman, credible sources are reporting that Dennis Hastert may be planning t...
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Be careful with those protest descriptionsAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - I just read the Aug. 25 article by Rupa Shenoy regarding the pro-life/anti-abortion protest that happened in Aurora and it was fairly accurate except for two things tha...
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Rotate troops out of South KoreaAug 28, 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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Is animosity making newspaper myopic?Aug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Does your animosity toward the prior administration and school board of District 300 know no bounds? First, you take credit for getting a financial institution to relea...
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Alternative energy should be priorityAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - We need an "Apollo" program for energy independence. Elected officials and environmental organizations have written me with the good news that the U.S. House of Represen...
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Politicians should be ashamedAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Between the immigration fiasco and our politicians' desire to make the U.S.A. peacemaker to the rest of the world, our country has dug a hole that it's never going to ge...
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State should ban driving while textingAug 28, 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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Executive orders have no placeAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - The founding fathers created a way to make and maintain laws. The Congress makes a law. The courts interpret that law. And the Executive Department enforces the provisio...