Cook County Opinion
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Dec 16, 2015 11:01 pm - What if students were told to wear cross for a day? Isn't the Vernon Hills High School "Walk a mile in her hijab" as featured on your front page on Dec. 10 a violat...
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Refugees should go to Middle EastDec 16, 2015 11:01 pm - I cannot for the life of me figure out why people in this country oppose improved background checking for Muslims wishing to come to this country. It's obvious that the ...
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Editorial: Find cause of shrinking achievement gap for Hispanics at ECC and spread itDec 16, 2015 10:00 pm - As the Daily Herald's Poverty Achievement Index has borne out, whether in previous standardized state tests or the just-released results of the new PARCC test, there is ...
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Editorial: Hamilton's departure may not set stage for COD harmonyDec 16, 2015 9:00 am - So. The College of DuPage spring lasted all of one day. On Monday, the morning after Kathy Hamilton's abrupt and unexplained resignation from the fractured COD board, ma...
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Obama entourage a symbol of excessDec 16, 2015 12:00 am - The British press is entranced by the sheer size of President Obama's entourage which traveled to the G-20 summit in London. Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, inc...
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If leaders are so confident, why not let people vote?Dec 16, 2015 12:00 am - In response to an article about top Democrats rejecting the redistricting and term limits ballot proposals the governor is promoting, if Michael Madigan and John Cullert...
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What does this say of religious tolerance?Dec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - What does this say of religious tolerance? So, let me get this straight. Our daughters are dressed in Muslin hijabs in a public school to foster tolerance of a reli...
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Second Amendment intent hasn't changedDec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - In his Dec. 14 letter, Theodore Utchen writes that since the Second Amendment referred to the need of the militia to be called up from the populace, it is no longer rele...
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Don't be defined by rhetoric of the pastDec 15, 2015 12:00 am - In oral arguments before the Supreme Court this week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia remarked if minority students with inferior academic credentials may be better...
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Response to history's revisionistsDec 14, 2015 11:01 pm - This is in response to the letter from Judy Arenas in the Nov. 19 issue of the Daily Herald. She pulls a supposed quote from John Adams somewhere at the same time that a...