Cook County Opinion
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Level pension playing fieldSep 11, 2016 1:00 am - Totally eliminate all pensions dealing any government connections, federal, state and local. Easier said than done. There are of course many complications, but until we ...
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Let's end complaints on LongmeadowSep 11, 2016 12:01 am - I realize the media feels some perverse obligation to report on happenings in their region. However, I wish these reporters would evaluate the statements they quote as t...
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Revolving-door prison not the solution for drugsSep 10, 2016 1:00 am - President Obama's recent commutation of 111 inmates from prison certainly sounds noble enough. After all, many of these felons do have families and in many cases their c...
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Low wages drive shortage of workers to help disabledSep 10, 2016 1:00 am - Little City encourages all of its stakeholders to contact local lawmakers and the governor's office to encourage them to support $15 per hour for direct support professi...
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Government should use Hillary's great computersSep 10, 2016 1:00 am - The article Frances Hanion wrote in Your Views about Hilary was spot on. Her computer should have been confiscated, as it would have been if it were you or me. When she...
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Do we care anymore about dishonesty?Sep 09, 2016 1:00 am - I am sure being dishonest goes back a very long way, I would bet there was a cave man who all the other cave dwellers often said, "you can't believe a word Trog says abo...
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Serious whack shortageSep 09, 2016 1:00 am - I don't know where to look for it, but we all definitely need to come together and find us a whole bunch of whack. Cause this state, this country, and the whole world ar...
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Hard to justify 'extreme makeover'Sep 09, 2016 1:00 am - Palatine Township Elementary School District 15's latest plan involves an "extreme makeover" already enraging many residents for proposing to disrupt entire neighborhood...
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Even with faults, Trump is the only choiceSep 08, 2016 1:00 am - For many voters, the choices offered for our next president leave a lot to be desired, but it seems to me that we have only one clear choice and that would be Donald Tru...
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Editorial: Success combines personal determination, community supportSep 07, 2016 1:00 am - The story of Catherine Sanchez's rise from high school dropout to 30-year-old neurobiology student at Stanford University would be inspirational enough if it involved on...