Cook County Opinion
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Wish Roskam were in GOP House leadershipOct 23, 2015 1:00 am - With the shake-up in the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives following the recently announced resignation of Speaker John Boehner, I am writing to offer my r...
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Editorial: Loophole is no way for schools to collect taxesOct 22, 2015 2:00 pm - Schools operate on a set of rules - students know that if they break them, they face the consequences. Students, however, many times follow the adage that rules are made...
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Winfield, stop whining about CDHOct 22, 2015 12:00 am - This is in response to the Daily Herald story of how much Central DuPage Hospital costs Winfield. Winfield has a bunch of whiny babies in it that can't get along with ea...
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Enough with the Benghazi charadeOct 22, 2015 12:00 am - Two Republicans have now publicly admitted that the current Senate investigation is a deliberate attempt to undermine Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign. With the h...
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Schools caught in trap of relative truthOct 21, 2015 1:00 am - According to the article in the paper, District 211 "respects transgender students' identity" by allowing them to change their listed gender and name on school records, ...
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This is the year for lover of Cubs, baseballOct 21, 2015 1:00 am - Andy. this is the year! Seventy years ago, I was walking home from St. Mary's School in Des Plaines and stopped to listen to the roar of the crowd being blasted out of a...
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Editorial: Roosevelt's emphatic and welcome commitment to the suburbsOct 20, 2015 11:00 pm - Roosevelt University President Ali Malekzadeh had a refreshing message for Schaumburg and the suburbs this week: "We're back." Not that the university had abandoned its ...
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Government can't be run like businessOct 20, 2015 5:03 am - Every time I hear someone say government should run like a business it makes me cringe. Government is NOT a business, it is a SERVICE. Could any business survive with a...
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Police can't make up for bad parentsOct 20, 2015 5:03 am - I believe that until people who create a child (you'll notice I didn't say "parent a child") accept the responsibility of parenting that child, the crime rate in America...
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Our view: Police step out in front of heroin scourgeOct 20, 2015 1:00 am - By going public with their decision to help heroin addicts kick the drug rather than arrest them, Rolling Meadows police are putting themselves out there. We'd like to b...