Cook County Opinion
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Jackson sentence doesn’t make justiceAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - What a travesty! Poor Rod Blagojevich gets 15 years for lying and didn’t steal a cent, and Jesse Jackson Jr. gets 2½ years for stealing $750,000. Go figure. To top it of...
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Blame Democrats for sequestrationAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - In his Aug. 10 letter titled “Budget cutting is destroying the nation,” Tom Teune of Wheaton blames the Republican party for the spending cuts from sequestration. Perhap...
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Blame woes on voters, self-serving officialsAug 15, 2013 2:00 pm - The Illinois pension problem is the worst of the worst, going further into debt — over $12 million a day. Many leaders in Springfield today are the same ones and from th...
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Editorial sought to challenge a tired phraseAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - I got my first personal introduction to what has come to be known as NIMBY syndrome in Clinton, Iowa, back in the 1970s. As a cub reporter, I attended meeting after emot...
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Create list for the ‘drug-enhanced’Aug 15, 2013 4:40 am - Create list for the ‘drug-enhanced’ Alex Rodriguez, JhonnyPeralta, Nelson Cruz and other misfits have been suspended by MLB for cheating by taking PED. It’s a slap ...
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More are opting out of ObamacareAug 14, 2013 4:40 am - More are opting out of Obamacare Diana Neisman makes Obamacare, the affordable health care, sound so great I want to sign right up. Wait a minute, Unions want to op...
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A great deal of food collected at paradeAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - On behalf of the Hanover Township officials, the staff and all of the volunteers of our Welfare Services Department, I would like to thank the community for their outpou...
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Give D15 parents a better seat at tableAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - Emotions have been running high among parents in Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 for the past year, as the controversy over whether to impose a late s...
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Numbers show fire plan is irresponsibleAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - In 1992, (Barrington) Village President Ted Forsberg convinced his board that starting a firefighter pension would cost “$4 million in four years.” He used this claim to...
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Appreciates Clegg’s, Solberg’s votesAug 13, 2013 6:00 pm - Hats off to Greg Solberg and Jim Clegg. They represented the real Palatine community. Thank you for your service. Jim Ekeberg Palatine ...