Cook County Opinion
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Township thanks holiday donorsJan 08, 2015 12:01 am - Vernon Township would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that participated in the annual holiday Sponsor-A-Family programs. Once again the residents of Ve...
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Use brains, hearts in health care mattersJan 07, 2015 11:01 pm - Use brains, hearts in health care matters The Dec. 29 editorial by editor Jim Davis really spoke to me. As an older person, much older than the "Man who eschewed su...
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And executive pay increases are OK?Jan 07, 2015 4:01 am - All we hear and read about the minimum wage issue is that if it is increased business as we know it will come to an end. The lost of jobs, higher cost to consumers, comp...
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Torture report was dishonest, irresponsibleJan 07, 2015 4:01 am - I find the recent release by Dianne Feinstein and the Democratic Senators of the report on enhanced interrogation totally reprehensible at best, intellectually dishonest...
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Let's move on from torture controversyJan 07, 2015 4:01 am - We are at war. All's fair in love and war. The tortured at Guantanamo Bay are still walking. The people who died at the World Trade Center sneak attack on 9/11 are dead....
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Financial legislation will weaken democracyJan 06, 2015 4:01 am - The United States House and Senate have passed legislation rolling back safeguards from previous legislation designed to prevent an economic meltdown like the world suff...
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Transportation articles lead to speculationJan 06, 2015 4:01 am - I wanted to comment on some articles that recently ran in the Herald. The "Hidden hazards" articles relative to the hazards posed by railroad tanker cars transporting cr...
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Editorial: Later school start times deserve studyJan 05, 2015 10:00 pm - Ben, wake up! You're going to be late! What parent hasn't had to pry a teen out of bed in the morning? The kids stay up later than you want them to, and then you can't g...
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Our Republic died a long time agoJan 05, 2015 4:01 am - Tyler Benjamin wrote that we are witnessing the slow death of our Republic, the Republic that was established in 1787 during the federal convention which convened to rev...
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It's time to try something new with CubaJan 05, 2015 4:01 am - In response to Mr. Dale Plautz ("Appeasing Castro won't stop tyranny, Dec. 22), comparing President Obama to Neville Chamberlain is a stretch. Comparing Castro to Hitler...