Cook County Opinion
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Editorial decisions appear to be politicalJun 17, 2013 5:00 am - Any one, or all of these stories may be the most important of the year: the Benghazi attack and cover-up, the IRS targeting of conservative organizations, Kathleen Sebel...
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Congress not above the rest of usJun 17, 2013 5:00 am - I read Mike Riopell’s political column today with mixed emotions. Riopell discussed local politicians’ reactions to news that the NSA has been conducting surveillance of...
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Why shouldn’t gvmt. listen to your calls?Jun 17, 2013 4:40 am - Why shouldn’t gvmt. listen to your calls? Unbelievable, we have close to 3,000 people murdered in a single day, more than were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor,...
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Time for a clean sweep in legislatureJun 16, 2013 5:00 am - I hope I am not the only person in Illinois who finds it appalling that Illinois Democrats are strongly discussing a change to the Constitution that would allow for a gr...
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Some changes we should makeJun 16, 2013 5:00 am - Read a letter today (June 7) saying how Mr. Sears was afraid of the Republicans taking away his right to vote. Why do you oppose laws requiring people having to show a p...
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Glenbard program truly a treasureJun 16, 2013 4:40 am - Glenbard program truly a treasure Recently my wife and I had the pleasure of listening to highly sought after speaker, Stanford University’s Dr. Carol Dweck, talk a...
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Inflation in food prices often hiddenJun 15, 2013 5:00 am - Inflation has been diabolically sneaking up on us through the food chain. Check the net content weights on your food labels; you may be in for many nasty surprises. A ye...
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Medical marijuana is about quality of lifeJun 15, 2013 5:00 am - In regard to your recent “Taking Sides” column on the battle over medical marijuana, I have been in severe pain since 1994 after an accident, with fibromyalgia, gout and...
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Let’s ban the phrase ‘women and children’Jun 15, 2013 5:00 am - “The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them women and children ...” — Daily Herald, June 6. Why “women and children”? Why not “men and chi...
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Address controversy over tallest buildingJun 15, 2013 5:00 am - “Recently on ‘60 Minutes’ and then later on NBC’s Nightly News, Scott Pelly and Brian Williams announced to their watching audiences that 1 WTC was now ‘ ... the tallest...