Letters to the Editor
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We must send a positive message about AmericaApr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Is this the country you want to live in? One where the president goes to his golf course in a limo, unaware that four soldiers have lost their lives in Lithuania. Or in w...
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Ulterior motives?Apr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Were the Trump tariffs little more than a stock market manipulation? Declare tariffs, watch the market crash, buy in, pause tariffs, watch the market recover, sell off, i...
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Referendum wake-up callApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - The third attempt to pass a referendum in school District 23 to satisfy a state mandate for full-day kindergarten for the 2027-28 school year has failed again. The taxpay...
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We are under threat as a nation dividedApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.” A. Lincoln Racial unrest and political polar...
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History lessonApr 09, 2025 4:00 am - 64 A.D., Nero fiddles while Rome burns. 2025, Trump golfs while the economy crashes. “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” is the famous saying....
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Fair sharing?Apr 09, 2025 4:00 am - Regarding U.S. foreign aid: How many countries around the world tax their citizens and then various government agencies send a portion of those taxes to the United States...
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A question for changing timesApr 09, 2025 4:00 am - Over 50 years of voting, I’ve supported both political parties. In each election, one party generally lined up with my thinking more than the other, but my vote was never...
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Dictatorship, past and presentApr 08, 2025 11:05 am - “No power in executive hands can be too great, no discretion too absolute, at such moments as these. We need a dictator. Let lawyers talk when the world has time to hear ...
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President putting country in declineApr 08, 2025 11:01 am - Donald Trump ran for president on the platform of “Make America Great Again,” but weren’t we already great? We had a thriving economy (contrary to what Trump claimed) and...
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Grill lawmakers on women’s sports rulesApr 08, 2025 11:01 am - On Tuesday, March 4, the U.S. Senate voted on the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025”. 51 Republicans voted “yea” while 45 Democrats voted “nay” (there ...