Cook County Opinion
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Give educators the respect they deserveDec 31, 2018 12:00 am - Enough already with the teacher bashing. I started my career as a teacher, then left to go to law school and became a litigator. I have been a teacher and a lawyer, and ...
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Library's building plans are past dueDec 29, 2018 12:00 am - Helen Plum Library has pushed the "Our Next Chapter" concept for nearly three years now. Seeing they have yet to even turn the page on their fictional tale of inconceiva...
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An investigation in search of a crimeDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - Have the Democrats lost their collective minds? All I hear is impeach, impeach, impeach. We have a system for removing presidents. It's call elections. Choose a better c...
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New lawmakers, push for infrastructure upgradeDec 15, 2018 12:00 am - Congratulations to the many newly elected state legislators from the Western and Northwestern suburbs. Reps. Deanne Mazzochi, Mark Walker, Amy Grant, Joyce Mason, Terra ...
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Good job, school boardDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - A tip of the hat to the Geneva School District 304 for holding their ground during the teacher strike. Typically what happens in these cases is that the school board giv...
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An additional perspective on pensionsDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - I appreciate Jake Griffin's front page story on fire chiefs collecting pensions as well as salaries. I felt he did a very good job of pointing out the pension dilemma an...
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Editorial: Lake makes right decision to end p-cards - finallyDec 12, 2018 10:00 pm - Lake County officials have finally seen the light and scuttled the much-criticized program that allowed county board members to use taxpayer-funded credit cards to pay f...
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Climate solution bill introduced in CongressDec 08, 2018 12:00 am - It has been 10 years since a serious bipartisan bill has been introduced in Congress to address climate change, but on Nov. 27, it happened. HR7173, the Energy Innovatio...
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How to really save moneyDec 07, 2018 12:00 am - Dan Cronin has been patting himself on the back for cuts made by reducing different offices in the county and saving the taxpayers all this money. According to the Daily...
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No more: Teachers already get huge taxpayer supportDec 04, 2018 12:00 am - In the Nov. 20 edition of the Daily Herald is an article titled, "Teachers plan pickets (to get more community support) to bolster bid for new deal." As is usually the c...