Cook County Opinion
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Act quickly or bees will be goneApr 21, 2016 1:00 am - Garden-care giant Ortho should move faster than 2021 to stop putting bee-killing neonicotinoids in its products. By 2021, there might not be any bees alive! The company...
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Taxpayers should protest District 15 dealApr 21, 2016 1:00 am - This morning my wife and I read about the new negotiated 10-year contract for the District 15 teachers. Accordingly, we sent the following letter to Gov. Rauner's office...
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Past the stage of pouting at CODApr 21, 2016 1:00 am - The whining of some COD board members has finally got the best of me. After helping to create the Robert Breuder problem to begin with, they not only have stood in the ...
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Hastert hiding behind power politicsApr 20, 2016 1:00 am - The Daily Herald's article on the Hastert trial April 14 reported that the prosecutors admitted the "abuse allegations" but they agreed not to use Hastert's statement to...
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Are you pro-birth, rather than pro-life?Apr 20, 2016 1:00 am - You are pro-birth, not pro-life, if: You don't believe in affordable universal health care for all. Especially for the mother and fetus but then of course a fetus grows ...
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Columnist distorts Clinton recordApr 20, 2016 1:00 am - The Herald continues to give Gene Lyons a forum to promote blatantly false information regarding Hillary Clinton's grossly negligent handling of classified information. ...
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Governor, do right thing for studentsApr 19, 2016 12:01 am - Dear Governor Rauner, As a public school educator since 1985, I have committed my professional life to the education of young people. It is these young adults who will ...
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Editorial: District 15 has much to prove on troubling 10-year teacher contractApr 17, 2016 11:00 pm - The next time the Palatine Elementary District 15 school board and its teachers will negotiate a new contract will be sometime around 2026, thanks to a new pact approved...
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Features, not conservation, explain Tesla popularityApr 17, 2016 1:00 am - In a recent letter to the editor, the writer asserts that the pre-production demand for the Model 3 Tesla shows that "preferences for clean over cheap energy may be grow...
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Financial crimes must be punishedApr 17, 2016 1:00 am - The headline in the Herald's April 12 edition reads "Goldman Sachs pays $5 billion to settle allegations of shoddy mortgages." The content of the article reveals that "n...