Cook County Opinion
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Republicans undoing many good thingsApr 30, 2013 5:00 am - Well, whaddya know? Republican Mark Kirk is now in favor of same-sex marriage. Imagine! The power of the vote, and a Republican congressman reacted to it. Amazing! Next ...
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Pipeline would ease economic stressApr 30, 2013 5:00 am - Conceding the right of Ms. P. Denise Israel to her opinion (April 9) about the “dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuel on the planet,” I would direct her attention ...
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Public pensions create inequalityApr 30, 2013 5:00 am - How can it be legal that 100 percent of the people pay taxes so that 15 percent of the people can get big fat pensions? It is my belief that the state Constitution is su...
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Stand up for those who are bulliedApr 29, 2013 5:00 am - It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Bullying has become a major concern throughout the c...
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Editorial: A wide and deep gulf in the pension debateApr 28, 2013 5:00 am - There are a few ways to look at the interaction during The Pension Forum we sponsored with Reboot Illinois Thursday night at Harper College in Palatine. We were pleased,...
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Newspapering hardly deserves its ‘worst’ labelApr 28, 2013 5:00 am - I knew it was bad, but I didn’t think it was the worst. I’m referring, of course, to the survey in Careercast.com that ranks newspaper reporters, and implicitly everyone...
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Guns needed to protect others, tooApr 27, 2013 5:00 am - A girl screaming help woke me up. The screams were coming from the passageway between our house and the neighbor’s. Living on Chicago’s West Side it may as well have bee...
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Pro athletes are way overpaidApr 27, 2013 5:00 am - Sports are part of everyday lives for most of the people in our country. We tend to play sports everyday, at every age and at basically every location. However, it is no...
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Treat all public pensions equallyApr 27, 2013 5:00 am - Pat Devaney’s response to Jake Griffin’s story of March 13 on the International Municipal Retirement Fund illustrates the problem with public pensions. He makes a strong...
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Senators showed no backbone on gunsApr 27, 2013 5:00 am - I am outraged and sickened that our Senate has been bought and paid for by big money/gun special interests. There was absolutely no reason not to pass the background che...