Cook County Opinion
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12 years long enough for Rolling Meadows to find Dominick's replacementJan 22, 2016 12:00 am - Senior housing proposal another worthy idea for long-vacant plaza in heart of city
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Can't have enough fact-checkingJan 21, 2016 11:01 pm - Kudos to the Daily Hearld for printing the "Debate Fact Check" article on Page 13 of the Friday, Jan. 15 issue. I suggest that in the future it be placed on Page 1, Sect...
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Making up stats to serve their needsJan 21, 2016 11:01 pm - This is in regards to Mike Sehr's letter in the Jan. 9 letters section. I don't know where Mr. Sehr gets his statistics from but according to the CDC, the number one cau...
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Global weakling is now our roleJan 21, 2016 11:01 pm - While detained in prison camps in Vietnam and during World War II, brave American servicemen gave, at the risk of grave personal harm or torture, only their name, rank a...
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Clinton should support leave actJan 21, 2016 12:00 am - Currently in Congress there is a bill that would establish a trust fund allowing new mothers to receive up to 12 weeks of paid family leave. This bill sets up a fund un...
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Omitting full title an insult to KingJan 21, 2016 12:00 am - All three candidates defrocked The Rev. Martin Luther King by using "Dr." and not "the Rev." They all refer to the Rev. Jackson and the Rev. Sharpton. Why not the Rev. K...
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Two presidential pardons brewing?Jan 20, 2016 11:00 pm - Now that this president has made his final state of the union speech our thoughts turn to who will be pardoned. My bet is there will be at least two people pardoned by P...
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Failing to vote hurts young peopleJan 20, 2016 12:00 am - I'm an ex-Army three-quarter's-decade staff sergeant who could not compute then, or now, "why not?" Then: 58,000 casualties within Vietnam, of which the majority were un...
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College of DuPage can't move forward without cooperative trusteesJan 20, 2016 12:00 am - Once again, the news covers board disagreements, not College of DuPage's positives. What is at stake at COD? Our students rely upon COD transfer credits. On Dec. 16, the...
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Professor should teach at different collegeJan 20, 2016 12:00 am - Many Christians from the Chicago area, including myself, have had their attention on the recent Daily Herald coverage of Wheaton College's professor of political science...