Cook County Opinion
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Iron Mike wilts in Packers jerseyNov 25, 2015 12:00 am - I may be an old fuddy duddy, but the commercial with Mike Ditka in a Packers sweater is a sin. Iron Mike, Mr. Bears in a packers shirt is just wrong. Anybody else but h...
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Debates can't ignore the important issuesNov 25, 2015 12:00 am - In response to Mr. Sears' preference of questions to presidential candidates I would rather have questions related to the issues that voters care about than the nonsense...
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Clinton wants empathy with terrorists?Nov 25, 2015 12:00 am - The media sure has a field day going after Republican candidates, searching for something they said when they were 10 years old or in high school, whatever. Well, here i...
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Glory years for educators, not for taxpayersNov 25, 2015 12:00 am - In the Nov. 9 edition of the Daily Herald, there is a letter to the editor by Karen Wagner titled "Teachers, education at crossroads." She states: "I was an Illinois tea...
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We expect more of sheriff, county boardNov 24, 2015 11:00 pm - I am amazed that elected county officials are finger pointing over meeting and approving a budget. It's bad enough we are dealing with the controversy at College of Dup...
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State is not governor's playthingNov 24, 2015 11:00 pm - Before entering public service. Governor Rauner's business was private equity. The private equity model is to buy and sell companies. They make profits by reducing the t...
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Why won't Islamic lands take refugees?Nov 24, 2015 11:00 pm - One aspect of the Syrian "refugee" business that perplexes me is that the "refugees" are trying to leave their culture, their language, their religion, etc., and go to t...
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Fuddy Duddy brings joy in a sad worldNov 24, 2015 11:00 pm - I perused a recent Saturday Daily Herald on the all-too-common disheartening events of the day. Page 1 had a story on the Mali siege. Page 2, an article on "the Donald";...
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Careful vetting of Syrian immigrants?Nov 24, 2015 11:00 pm - The news is filled with conversations about passports, their importance for travel and their use as an official identifying document. A few years ago, on one of our trav...
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Religious extremists are not all alikeNov 24, 2015 12:00 am - In his letter of Nov. 20, James Prescott laments that in the wake of the recent Paris "incident," the news media stepped-up their badgering and criticism of Barack Obama...