Cook County Opinion
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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...
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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...