Cook County Opinion
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Texas did right to limit abortionsAug 09, 2013 5:00 am - In response to Sheryl Jedlinski’s July 19 letter (“New abortion law will hurt women”), thank you, Rick Perry and the citizens of Texas who voted to limit the killing of ...
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Where does it stop on arming ourselves?Aug 09, 2013 5:00 am - Regarding Mr. Gideon’s letter of Aug. 2, wow! Where do I begin? 1. The Founding Fathers didn’t want the entire citizenry to be armed to protect themselves from their el...
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Talk about lowering taxes is missingAug 09, 2013 5:00 am - With all this do-nothing talk about pension reform, I have a question to ask Illinois taxpayers. Why are we not hearing anyone talk about lowing taxes if and when reform...
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Editorial: Another suburb turns its back on the disabledAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - Anything sound familiar here? Aug. 5, 2013: Palatine village Councilman Tim Millar expresses support for a housing project for mentally disabled residents but, along wit...
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Fix pensions before altering gas taxAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - The July 23 story summarizing the Transportation for Illinois Coalition proposal to raise gasoline prices and vehicle registration to improve roads and bridges misses th...
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Credit Democrats for consolidation billAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - Gov. Pat Quinn’s signing of SB 494 corrected a problem that has been around for 40 years during Republican rule in DuPage County. SB 494 allows for the elimination or co...
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We should return to small governmentAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - My parents always preached that “honesty is the best policy.” Period. On July 24, our president said we have, among other things, “phony scandals.” Benghazi? Fast and Fu...
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Herald motivated by a backlash?Aug 08, 2013 5:00 am - The Aug. 1 column by Jim Slusher on editorial objectivity caused me to sit back and wonder why it was written. It referred to the previous Sunday’s editorial raising eth...
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Will GOP do any better if given chance?Aug 07, 2013 5:00 am - The following are questions from The Great Financial Crisis, published in 2009 at the beginning of Obama’s first term when hopes were high and the Republicans utterly di...
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Farm bill should focus on healthy eatingAug 07, 2013 5:00 am - Focus farm bill on healthy eating Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives, on a party-line vote, broke with tradition by stripping from the farm bill t...