Cook County Opinion
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Time for a rally for progress?Oct 12, 2013 5:00 am - The nation cannot wait for action, so I will dispense with any prologue about this issue. Rep. Randy Hultgren, 14th District, has an office at 1797 W. State St. in Genev...
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Dist. 200’s funding priorities misplacedOct 12, 2013 5:00 am - In the “Soapbox” column of Oct. 5 there was an item titled “Classroom help.” This article highlighted two teachers from Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 who have pa...
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Oasis demolition shows failure in planningOct 12, 2013 5:00 am - Among other things, Illinois taxpayers expect its elected and appointed leaders to plan responsibly for our future. The announcement that the Des Plaines Oasis on the Ja...
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The SoapboxOct 12, 2013 5:00 am - Budgetary perspective in Elgin: Elgin city councilmen are not sure about eliminating business license fees because they worry about losing revenue. The fees are projecte...
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Press, websites have power to bring changesOct 12, 2013 5:00 am - I was happy after reading the recent article stating that the Lake County chairman will require appointees for management jobs to sign a form (pledge) concerning what is...
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Accents on phone tough to understandOct 12, 2013 5:00 am - I have come to the conclusion that we the American public need to boycott any and all service providers whose customer service computer takes 10 minutes to speak to a hu...
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Shutdown shows mixed-up prioritiesOct 11, 2013 5:00 am - How is it in a trillion-dollar budget the Obama administration cannot find sufficient funds to keep open the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., and the American ...
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Unions have ensured fairness to workersOct 11, 2013 5:00 am - Mike Simon’s letter (Sept. 28) blaming American voters for all this negativity is correct in most points. I disagree with one: big unions carving huge chunks out of work...
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U.S. should lead the way to peaceOct 11, 2013 5:00 am - There are approximately 140 countries on Earth. In 100 years, only one has been in every war, the U.S., with either military troops or aid of some sort. We built a U.N. ...
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Meatless diets would slow global warmingOct 11, 2013 5:00 am - More and more scientists and climate experts are concurring that humans cause devastating and deadly global warming. Please note that inhumanely raising and killing anim...