Cook County Opinion
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Caterpillar owed an Obama explanationOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - On Feb. 9, 2009, President Obama stood next to the CEO of Caterpillar in East Peoria. He was talking about his recovery program and what it meant to the workers of Cater...
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Keep those muskets loaded and handyOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - In the wake of another horrific massacre of innocent people in Oregon, the president is once again calling for more gun control legislation from Congress. Fortunately we...
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Time to give up on the SoxOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - After more than 50 years, I am no longer a White Sox fan. Hiring Robin Ventura as manager when he had no managerial or coaching experience was a weird experiment. Keepi...
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Hillary put herself ahead of nationOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - Thus far, millions of words have been uttered or written about presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton's, private server and email operation. The words of the chattering...
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Can COD community come together?Oct 10, 2015 1:00 am - We received the latest newspaper article at College of DuPage recently, and how very sad for the people there as well as people like us who have been such strong and pro...
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Simple licensing would solve gun problemOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - I laugh. But how could I laugh at another tragedy of gun violence? Because I laugh as though the politicians and the newspaper editorial sections act like there is no so...
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Imagine if pension problems were fixedOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - What would the state of Illinois be in if the pension crisis would be fixed? Where would the cities, counties, townships and the schools be in financially if there wasn...
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Missed chance on gun controlOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - A number of the Republican presidential candidates are using Chicago as an example of how gun laws don't work. Do they remember that when the last Daley was mayor, the C...
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Judge's handling of IT case impressiveOct 09, 2015 12:00 am - Having an interest in governmental proceedings, I sat in on a bench trial in Judge Liam Brennan's court room recently. It was for two defendants in the DuPage Forest Pre...
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No tie between Iran and Iraq invasionOct 09, 2015 12:00 am - In an Oct. 5 letter, Mike Simon took us on a tortured trip down memory lane (lest we forget) to bring us to the conclusion that the Iran nuclear deal is no good. He sta...