Cook County Opinion
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Taxpayers haven’t been treated ‘brutally’May 17, 2013 5:00 am - A few comments in the Daily Herald’s May 8 editorial (“A start, but more needed on pensions”) left me incredulous, speechless and angry! Saying that “the net effect of t...
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System has too many inconsistenciesMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - I believe reporters in general are not asking all of the right questions. First, why are some groups of people such as teachers and police allowed to opt out of the Soci...
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Make Speaker Madigan more accountableMay 17, 2013 5:00 am - I am writing this letter due to my concern about pension reform as proposed by Michael Madigan and passed by the Illinois House, coupled with Mr. Madigan’s continued pus...
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Responsible spending needed today, tooMay 16, 2013 5:00 am - Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a Federalist Founding Father. He was a four-term congressman from Massachusetts who served 1789-1797; concurrent with George Washington’s yea...
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Plan B pill an important optionMay 16, 2013 5:00 am - This is in response to Kathleen Parker’s column of May 6, “Plan B ruling is an affront to parenting.” Sorry, Parker, but the affront to parenting is not the ruling allow...
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Extend our humanity to animalsMay 15, 2013 5:00 am - It’s encouraging that humans are becoming more ethical evidenced by civil rights, minority rights, religious rights, women’s rights, victims’ rights, gay rights and espe...
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No comparison between captivesMay 15, 2013 5:00 am - Really? In Saturday’s Daily Herald, a cartoonist compares the savage brutality the monster in Cleveland imposed on three innocent girls with the treatment America has im...
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Pension solution needs careful thoughtMay 15, 2013 5:00 am - With respect to your editorial Sunday on Illinois’ pension problem, one thing is very clear: There is a huge distrust in this state of our legislators in Springfield. To...
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Need guidelines for concealed carryMay 15, 2013 4:40 am - Need guidelines for concealed carry The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has not ordered the state to pass a concealed carry law by June 9. The 7th has ruled that Illin...
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Congress should learn to governMay 15, 2013 4:00 am - In 1787, when our Constitution was written, Edmund Randolph's seventh proposal was for our president to be elected by Congress for one seven-year term and would be remov...