Cook County Opinion
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Hillary, what's in your basket?Sep 19, 2016 1:00 am - Hillary has announced a "basket of deplorables" as a means of profiling and condemning Trump supporters she has decided are abhorrent, hateful, and bigoted people. Howev...
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Fund mental health in community firstSep 19, 2016 1:00 am - The planned Illinois Department of Corrections treatment units at Elgin Mental Health Center are definitely needed and will treat a serious symptom, but not the causes, ...
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Avoid interest conflictsSep 18, 2016 1:00 am - Your article on a judge not commenting on a change in the Gliniewicz case fails to emphasize an important point; i.e., that it's a good thing when public officials ackno...
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Taxpayers can't afford school bond issueSep 18, 2016 1:00 am - I am against the CCSD15 bond proposal for $130 million. All this is going to do is to raise our taxes. Building two new schools is a waste of taxpayers' money. Switchin...
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Sad that teachers had to resort to passportsSep 18, 2016 12:01 am - I would like to share my perspective on the bathroom passport issue. I have been a school nurse for 22 years, the last seven at a large, diverse high school in the Nort...
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Will Trump ever release his tax returns?Sep 18, 2016 12:01 am - When will Trump release his tax returns? Everyone else has for many election cycles. Makes you wonder what he's hiding? Maybe he didn't pay any tax. Maybe he paid a lot ...
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Editorial: What Mayor Rooney needs to remember in SpringfieldSep 17, 2016 2:00 pm - Tom Rooney's always been one of our favorite suburban mayors. Pleasant guy; wide-eyed; boyish enthusiasm; seems genuinely open to other opinions, not just his own; an en...
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A better way to handle bathroom flapSep 17, 2016 1:00 am - How sad that Melissa Omalley Walker and other parents of children at Wredling Middle School in St. Charles missed a golden opportunity to model for their children the wa...
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Reducing debt must become a prioritySep 17, 2016 1:00 am - First, a few facts. Our national debt is just under $20 trillion. As a percentage of the GDP, it has never been higher in our country's history except during World War I...
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Justice was served in murder trialSep 17, 2016 1:00 am - Marco Lopez was found not guilty of the horrendous murders of Luis and Segundo Reynoso. I was one of 12 jurors who decided that the state did not present sufficient evid...