Cook County Opinion
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County has great record of preservationDec 19, 2015 12:00 am - I am writing in response to the letter to the editor submitted by Paul Showers in the Dec. 7 titled "Forest Preserve shows 'dump' mentality." The Lake County Forest Pr...
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Hot-spot commitment can close gapsDec 19, 2015 12:00 am - Gov. Rauner recently applauded the mobile hot spot telecom provider Sprint has committed to low-income students in five suburban high school districts. This is a stellar...
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Students first line of defense against hateDec 19, 2015 12:00 am - Over the past several months the Republican front-runner Donald Trump has made many incendiary comments. He suggested that a Black Lives Matter protester "maybe deserved...
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Violence is more than black vs. whiteDec 18, 2015 11:01 pm - So, where are protesters and exhibits of outrage over the coldblooded senseless murder of an innocent 9-year-old boy on a desolate Chicago alley? Black versus white is n...
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Class size solution: Home schoolingDec 17, 2015 11:01 pm - You recently printed a story on the front page about how public school educators are looking to technology to solve the problems that large class sizes present. As you k...
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Give immigrants a chance to be AmericansDec 17, 2015 11:01 pm - Over the last few weeks there has been many letter writers, pro and con, commenting about limiting or restricting immigration from particular parts of the world or of a ...
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Why do pols fail to act on gun control?Dec 17, 2015 11:01 pm - I have seen photos of some of those killed in the San Bernadino mass shooting. I am overwhelmed with sadness seeing those faces and taking in how their lives were abrupt...
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Put Christ back into ChristmasDec 17, 2015 11:01 pm - While Christmas has been celebrated for many years, the U.S. Congress declared it a national holiday and on June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law....
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Signs of danger for Christian traditionsDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - I just read on the front page of the Daily Herald today what I thought was outrageous, a Muslim group of girls, bringing their beliefs and traditions into a public schoo...
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Pay attention to history, not beliefsDec 16, 2015 11:01 pm - Judy Arenas Nov. 19 and Terry Spangler's Dec. 15 Letters to the Editor both have it wrong. This country was founded on "Separation of Church and State." They came from E...