Cook County Opinion
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Community made backpack giveaway a successAug 27, 2016 1:00 am - On behalf of the Hanover Township officials and all the staff and volunteers of our Welfare Services Department, I would like to thank the residents, community organizat...
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Paper downplayed ransom 'blockbuster'Aug 27, 2016 1:00 am - Last week, a blockbuster story broke, but not in the Daily Herald. The president of the United States was caught in a bald-faced lie, exposed by his own State Department...
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Where are environmentalists as forest fires rage?Aug 27, 2016 1:00 am - Every day television shows forest fires raging somewhere in the West. Each audio report tells us that only a fraction of the fires are under control with even more break...
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We're seeing campaign of personal destructionAug 27, 2016 1:00 am - The Republicans are cleansing their ranks of the RINOs Can you believe they are joining the ranks of the most crooked Democrat candidate in modern history? The Libertar...
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School taxes will force seniors out of PalatineAug 26, 2016 1:00 am - First, we get District 15 teachers a new 10-year contract shoved down our throats by Mr. Scott Thompson. Now he is seeking to approve borrowing $130 million for construc...
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Social Security issues complex, but fixableAug 26, 2016 1:00 am - David Barnes in his letter on Aug. 12 makes a number of good points about Social Security, but there are a few that he does not mention. First, Social Security was ...
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Gender neutral at 2020 Olympics?Aug 26, 2016 12:01 am - I look forward to the 2020 Olympics when all the gender neutral will be in force by the UN and all the countries that support "I am what I say I am" no matter what body ...
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Still some stragglers among the GOPAug 26, 2016 12:01 am - When I watched Peter Thiel, the openly homosexual founder of PayPal, speak at the Republican National Convention, I thought that the GOP had finally joined the rest of u...
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District maps used to shut voters outAug 25, 2016 1:00 am - I write to you as a longtime resident of Des Plaines and a concerned senior citizen. For more than 40 years, with a single exception, every time Illinois legislators hav...
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Iran nuclear deal is good for U.S., MideastAug 25, 2016 1:00 am - I read Joe Pasternak's letter which turns out to be misleading. First, it was not Obama's Iran nuclear deal. It was a United States, China, England, France, Germany and ...