A lot of people are sweating over those belated and expensive notices of toll collection violations.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the Friday before Mother's Day to be Military Spouse Appreciation Day. Since then, succeeding presidents have continued to honor the spouses of our service men and women.

Glen Ellyn Youth Baseball Association and Glen Ellyn Girls Softball would like to thank all the volunteers, sponsors, and participants of this year's baseball/softball parade. Over 1,000 kids, their parents and their coaches marched in the parade.

President Clinton was short sighted It appears, after observing lately the pit bull approach of the media against Obama and his minister of many years, who is telling the people that the "truth need not be whispered."

Mark Kirk voted once again with the Bush administration against outlawing water boarding.

It seems the people want national health care paid for by the government (taxes). Before you all go off and think how great this will be, consider this. For those in their 50s and older, we have Social Security and that will only last until 2020/2030 or whenever by various estimates.

I have never written to any newspaper to express my opinion before though many times I have felt the urge to do so. Today I decided the urge was strong enough to take a few minutes to share a slap me in the face irony.

What an absolutely disgusting decision your editors made to devote so much space on Page 1 in the Tuesday April 29 Daily Herald to a picture and information about Laura and Jenna Bush's local visit the Monday before.

Just my advice to the people of Illinois: Beware the words of Jim Thompson.

In Sunday's edition of Fence Post, Ken Grimm states that guns in America kill over 20,000 lives a year, but nobody cares.

Recently, I participated in a tele-town hall with Republican congressional candidate Steve Greenberg and State Sen. Matt Murphy.

As a 10th Congressional District resident, I am immensely proud of our independence and open-mindedness.

The current mantra from Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts is what he calls, "Operation Chaos."