Cook County Opinion
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Fast-food workers deserve a break, tooJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Most of us have eaten at fast food restaurants. And often, as we are in line to get our orders, we observe the goings-on in the work area on the opposite side of the cou...
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Cuba Twp. bubbles over with gratitudeJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - On behalf of Cuba Township, we want to tell our residents how thankful we are for last year’s donations to the Cuba Township Food Pantry and the Cuba Cares Fund as well ...
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The reason the young bear is bareJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - A friend of mine told me that Clark, the Cubs mascot, has no pants because they were beat off of him. Harry Trumfio Arlington Heights ...
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Business of the year happy to be in Mt. ProspectJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Thank you to the members of the Mount Prospect Chamber of Commerce for voting Vista Linda Eye Care as Business of the Year. When I established my practice in late 2011 i...
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At least Christie accepts responsibilityJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Watching the left trying to gin up lane closures into a genuine scandal requires Cirque du Soleil-like contortions. This at a time when President Obama is fighting Jimmy...
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Labels do nothing toward peaceful communitiesJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - I read David E. Smith’s letter of Jan. 13. There was nothing unusual about it. He continues to blame the media for promoting a false narrative. He still promotes himself...
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What’s the real story behind village TIF?Jan 20, 2014 4:00 am - The village of Schaumburg wants a new $512 million north Schaumburg TIF to fix alleged “blight.” When the village hired consultant Teska Associates to prepare a TIF eval...
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Let’s pay our politicians lastJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - When I was growing up, I read that the government was going to go broke with all of the reckless spending that was going on, and now Detroit proved the skeptics right! A...
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Front-page decisions missing the markJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Sometimes I scratch my head in bewilderment at which stories make front-page news at the Daily Herald and which stories don’t. Last week’s front-page story on New Jersey...
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Seeing Coleridge in American politicsJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Perhaps Chris Christie should have read Samuel Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” before he decided to run for governor of New Jersey again. Likewise, Richar...