Cook County Opinion
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Editorial: Stevenson's move to later start time a local test caseNov 01, 2015 10:00 pm - The toughest part about change often is finding someone to be first. On the issue of pushing school start times back later in the morning to be more in line with identif...
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Cut prison crowding with jobs halfway housesNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - During the president's speech to reform the criminal justice system, he referred to our prison population as the highest in the industrialized world but said nothing abo...
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Dist. 211 puts safety above political correctnessNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - I'm a graduate of Schaumburg High School and a Washington, D.C.,-based attorney who works and writes about education law. I have written law review articles on Title IX ...
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We need to call things what they areNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - I've been troubled by how the terms illegal and undocumented have been interchanged recently in news stories. It seems as if the term illegal is only used when someone ...
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'Clean Slate' hasn't met its promisesNov 01, 2015 12:00 am - Kathy Hamilton and her so-called "Clean Slate" cohorts Deanne Mazzochi, Frank Napolitano and Charles Bernstein took over the College of DuPage Board of Trustees with pro...
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Don't like cars? Just ban them.Nov 01, 2015 12:00 am - As I understand it, the anti-gun crowd does not want to own a firearm so they believe that if there is something they don't like then it should be banned. Well, I don't ...
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Don't define people by their disabilitiesOct 31, 2015 1:00 am - As a loyal reader of the Daily Herald and a teacher in the community, I was very concerned after reading the article entitled "Sesame Street welcomes autistic character....
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Drones won't knock airplanes out of skyOct 31, 2015 1:00 am - I am a drone owner with five models and three years experience. I am also an Air Force veteran. Most of the drones on the market today are hobbyist style models and fall...
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Fight climate change with carbon feeOct 31, 2015 12:00 am - The article, "Study finds the warmer it gets, the more world economy hurts" (Oct. 22), reported on a study that posits that there is a temperature "sweet spot" for produ...
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Indigestion can be serious at age 86Oct 31, 2015 12:00 am - Having ingested an inordinate amount of white lead, benzene, cigarettes, pipe tobacco and stale c-rations in my 86 years, I do appreciate the warning about eating hot do...