Cook County Opinion
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Immigration plan: Be more charitableAug 03, 2015 1:00 am - A letter in the July 19 paper repeats an opinion so devoid of logic that I laughed so hard coffee shot out of my nose. I refer to the nonsense that Central and South Am...
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Healthcare co-ops worse than SolyndraAug 03, 2015 1:00 am - Remember Solyndra? It cost those of us who pay taxes $500 million. Now we have Obamacare cco-ops that could cost us about $3 billion (with a B). Our leaders handed o...
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Trump, Roosevelt comparison wrongAug 02, 2015 1:00 am - In a recent column, Kathleen Parker, in her zest to pick the low-hanging fruit of a Donald Trump candidacy, wrote that Trump is "a bit like Teddy Roosevelt." She went ...
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Couldn't be more apart on 30-year toll bridge planAug 02, 2015 1:00 am - Two things illustrate the incredible disconnect between foes and supporters of the Longmeadow Parkway. 1. The scope of the project. An opposition flyer shows massive tru...
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Tried and true Sox cliché stopperAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - I have finally found a way to turn Ken "Hawk" Harrelson's myriad worn-out clichés into a positive. For the last three weeks, every time I hear an annoying utterance su...
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Help push to block pay raiseAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - On Monday, July 20, four of our fellow Des Plaines aldermen and Mayor Matt Bogusz gave our city manager a record-high 14 percent pay raise amounting to $22,000 each year...
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City manager's raise is out of lineAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - The fact that the mayor, Don Smith, and the other three alderman are "embarrassed" about the city manager's previous $157,000 salary clearly shows how they are out of to...
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The threat to consumer protectionAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - A recent letter to the editor suggested that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's credit card tracking devices - data mining on mortgages, student loans, bank acco...
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Plenty of comfort in basic freedomsJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - In his letter of 16 July to the Daily Herald, a Mr. Troland mentions a Hobby Lobby ad that appeared in the Herald on July 5, and states, "Yet I wonder if they are dismis...
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Care about mistakes, but calm the rhetoricJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - The recent news in Texas concerning a young lady's suicide while in police custody is unfortunate, and a concern to all of us. If there are laws being bypassed or broken...