Cook County Opinion
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Build more suburban economies of scaleMay 01, 2015 5:33 am - You don't see many big prestige projects being dreamed up by local government these days. Those generally take a walloping at the polls, as we saw during the April 7 el...
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School was right on climate changeMay 01, 2015 1:00 am - In reply to Nancy J. Thorner's letter on climate change, the Cherokee Elementary School got it right. We are in global warming and have been for quite a few years. In 20...
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Rauner fighting years of mismanagementApr 30, 2015 1:00 am - Mr. Prescott is so far out in left field that he hasn't noticed that the wall is being replaced by a new structure at Wrigley Field. Mr. Rauner has been in office almost...
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Improving health of California's smelt?Apr 30, 2015 1:00 am - I would like to address Marti Gorun's letter of April 25 in regard to climate deniers. First, 97 percent were from a survey in which only about 60 percent of the scienti...
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University decisions not job of lawmakersApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - Proposed legislation designed to force state universities to grant college credit to students who attain a "3" or higher on an AP exam is not "ridiculously reasonable" a...
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Letter to editor: State testing a waste of time, moneyApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - State testing is just a waste of taxpayers' money and teaching time. I taught high school mathematics for 37 years and this is how I view state testing. We do not need t...
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Palatine Library Seeking Teen Summer VolunteersApr 26, 2015 11:00 pm - Palatine Library will be accepting applications, May 1 through May 15, from students entering grades 7-12 interested in donating their time as Summer Library Volunteers ...
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No Pulitzer for heroin coverage, but these reporters truly are prizedApr 26, 2015 1:00 am - Alas, we did not win the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. The most prestigious award in journalism this past week went to the Los Angeles Times for stories about California's massiv...
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Editorial: Changing times, technologies give cause to renew debate about sprinkler mandatesApr 24, 2015 1:00 am - The people living in the Barrington Hills home that went up in flames last weekend were, by all accounts. lucky. Nobody died. Had the house fire started in the middle of...
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Editorial: Class-to-class, a gift that can help fight bullyingApr 22, 2015 1:00 am - Johnny Trout won't make the 40-year reunion of his 1975 graduating class at Fremd High School this summer, but his presence will be felt there more than he ever could ha...