Cook County Opinion
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Act of kindness brightened ThanksgivingDec 10, 2014 4:01 am - With a wife in a nursing home I found myself with no place to go on Thanksgiving evening after visiting her. I was looking for people and a place to have dinner, but alm...
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Editorial: Leadership change a costly mistakeDec 10, 2014 4:01 am - After the DuPage County Forest Preserve District hired a new executive director, and then fired him months later at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, there's o...
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Have we forgotten Pearl Harbor?Dec 10, 2014 4:01 am - On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, I listened to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speak the words "a day which will live in infamy." Following that, "remember Pearl Harbor" bec...
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Health insurers need more media scrutinyDec 09, 2014 4:01 am - Your article stating that health insurance rates are escalating had a very misleading headline. The headline read, "Facing health law hikes, consumers mull options." Foc...
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How about an apology from the president?Dec 09, 2014 4:01 am - Just a brief comment on James Cook's Dec. 3 letter in which he is so impatient for an apology from a nobody who dissed President Obama's daughters. Well, better late tha...
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GOP should impeach Obama, secure bordersDec 09, 2014 4:01 am - The GOP won the midterm election. Am I surprised? No. Most people are sick of big government meddling, corruption and tyranny so boldly pioneered by the Fabian socialist...
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State getting its due on pension debacleDec 08, 2014 11:01 pm - State getting its due on pension debacle Three strikes - you're out! That is what the courts are telling the legislative and executive branches of our state governm...
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Editorial: The need for openness on housing projectsDec 08, 2014 10:00 pm - You might be tempted to think local governments communicate with each other better than they do with the rest of us, but that's not always the case. Officials in Ela Tow...
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Bogusz shouldn't try to build dynastyDec 08, 2014 4:01 am - I was sorry to see that Des Plaines Mayor Matt Bogusz decided to open a campaign office to promote his choice of candidates for city council. Political backing for speci...
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Sussman the only one who is listeningDec 08, 2014 4:01 am - As Daily Herald reporter Steve Zalusky has written, there is no question the proposal for a downtown redevelopment will be a major election issue if Trustee Beverly Suss...