Cook County Opinion
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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...
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Bush has made shambles of U.SAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Since the time we have had George W. Bush and his cronies in office, he has made a shambles of America. He put us in deep debt to China and other countries to keep the w...
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The high risk of meat-heavy dietsAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Meat-heavy diets have been linked to an increased risk of colon cancer -- but now they're also linked to disease recurrence. A new study in the Journal of the American M...
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Fans singing for a chance at 7th heavenAug 27, 2007 11:00 pm - As a kid growing up in Arlington Heights, Matt Shepardson dreamed of stepping up to home plate at Wrigley Field and launching a Ryne Sandberg-esque home run as C...
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Past time to take care of our ownAug 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I would like to respond to columnist Cynthia Tucker's article on immigrants. In it, she said, "Most are law-abiding, hard-working family folk whose only infraction has b...
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Thoughtful letter on teen drinkingAug 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Thank you for the Fence Post letter written by Jordan Feldstein and headlined, "Attitudes must shift on teen drinking" on the opinion page of Aug. 3. It was very hearten...
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Kirk's disturbing silence on Iraq WarAug 27, 2007 11:00 pm - It is deep in August, Congress is not in session, Mark Kirk is in the district. Next month, Congress is about to take up the greatest issue of the past few years: to be ...