Cook County Opinion
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Important to salute valuable teachersFeb 14, 2013 4:00 am - I am a parent of three students at Ridge Circle Elementary school. With continued financial hardships and the struggle of administrators to turn around a broken school s...
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News decisions put negatives out frontFeb 14, 2013 4:00 am - Jan. 30, Daily Herald: The front page leads with an in-depth article on abuses of school district money at a convention in Chicago. Jan. 30, Neighbor and Classifieds se...
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What can District 54 have been thinking?Feb 14, 2013 4:00 am - Thank you to the Daily Herald for continuing to report the embarrassing mess that School District 54 has itself in over their ghastly compensation of district administra...
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Should have asked for artist’s OKFeb 14, 2013 3:40 am - Should have asked for artist’s OK A fellow artist sent me the Jan. 22 Daily Herald article titled “Lombard trustee touches up incomplete mural of historic sites.” I...
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Misleading article on Lauzen sign upFeb 14, 2013 3:01 am - Misleading article on Lauzen sign up Jim Fuller’s Feb. 7 article regarding Kane County Board members participation in executive committee meetings misleads readers ...
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Endorsement: Abboud for Barrington Hills village presidentFeb 13, 2013 11:47 am - Two competitors for Barrington Hills village president agree on one thing: the need to protect the village’s rural appeal, with its estates, horse paddocks and 5-acre zo...
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‘Checkout fee’ will hurt IllinoisFeb 13, 2013 4:00 am - Everyday commerce in Illinois as we know it today will soon be history. A settlement, announced back in July, happened when Visa, MasterCard and nine other major banks a...
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List of entitlements in U.S. is lengthyFeb 13, 2013 4:00 am - Listening to what passes as political discourse these days, I hear much about “entitlement programs.” Recently on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” one segment was titled “Managing...
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Editorial: School conference costs reflect need for restraintFeb 12, 2013 1:50 pm - Life is full of choices, especially when it comes to spending money. They are the kinds of decisions most of us make every day on one level or another. Should we buy a ...
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Parker hits mark on combat womenFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - I never thought I would agree with anything Kathleen Parker wrote. But I have been proven wrong; She is right — women do not belong in combat. Kathleen, your reasons wer...