Cook County Opinion
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Writer’s thinking on Founders is all wrongAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Mr. Richard Gideon, in a letter to editor on Aug. 2, wants us to believe that he has an inside track on the thinking of our “Founding Fathers.” He implied that the muzzl...
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Lowly investors get nothing from dealsAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - I note that another large bank, in this case UBS (following Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, etc.) has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission fo...
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Naperville’s duck tickets and other shameless newsAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shameless...
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A success story for housing for disabledAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - The Aug. 8 Daily Herald editorial highlighted a number of Northwest suburbs that rejected supportive living housing projects for the mentally disabled. As the editorial ...
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Too much jumping to conclusionsAug 17, 2013 5:00 am - Every day in this newspaper I read about the scandals that the president has been involved in. I have read that he has called them phony scandals (not true). They are: F...
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The SoapboxAug 17, 2013 5:00 am - Here they come: With the return of today’s International Festival of Racing, once again Arlington International Racecourse gets a chance to show the world what a first-c...
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Parents, beware of this animation onlineAug 16, 2013 10:55 am - Today, at this very moment, an 8-year-old child can log onto the Fox Broadcast Co.’s website and access extremely explicit animated content with no parental controls. Th...
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Obama policies giving terrorists an edgeAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - How many prisoners were freed from prisons in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan by al-Qaida? No wonder al-Qaida is feeling emboldened! So maybe it was a good idea to leave Isl...
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Work to get people out of low-paying jobsAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - In response Donna Brazile’s “People’s contest” column on Aug 9, she writes about a walkout demanding pay raises for fast food employees from $7.50 an hour to $15 an hour...
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Hardworking Americans are benefiting whom?Aug 16, 2013 5:00 am - The Walton family, sitting on a fortune of $90 billion through their ownership of Wal-Mart stock, paid 15 percent in federal taxes on a dividend payout that was accelera...