Letters to the Editor
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Will we stop a dangerous precedent?Sep 02, 2025 12:46 pm - By federalizing Washington, D.C., police, activating the National Guard and bulldozing homeless encampments with just a day’s notice, Trump has flexed a new kind of presi...
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Ironic firingSep 02, 2025 12:46 pm - Isn’t it interesting that our president is trying to fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Didn’t a jury convict him on 34 felony counts for doing almost the same t...
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Appeasement reportingSep 02, 2025 9:03 am - Apparently, Jim Slusher, Managing Editor of Opinion at the Daily Herald, felt the sting of Gov. Pritzker's words when he said, “I am asking for your courage to tell it li...
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Where is line between retaliation, annihilationSep 02, 2025 9:03 am - For months, after the unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas on innocent Israelis and the inhumane treatment of the hostages they seized, I fully supported Israel's retal...
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Block efforts to hurt responsible farmersSep 01, 2025 9:03 am - My wife and I raise pork, beef, poultry and eggs with a simple philosophy: animals deserve to live as close to nature as possible. Our livestock are pasture-raised, free ...
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Amendment needed on gerrymanderingSep 01, 2025 9:03 am - Concerning redistricting or gerrymandering: Once selecting our candidates is taken away from the people, is our democracy soon to follow? I heard one politician say, “The...
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A place to begin working for solutionsSep 01, 2025 9:03 am - We are Americans, and we are for: Three branches of government; due process; NATO; diplomacy; Ukraine; Canada and Mexico; USAID; national parks; NPR and PBS; EPA; NOAA; F...
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Our hope is in the next electionsSep 01, 2025 9:03 am - I enjoyed reading Cyndi Kehoe’s letter to the editor “Putin, Trump putting America at risk.” She is right-on but omitted one major grave risk: Trump and his gang are lead...
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Health care is a moral and economic crisisSep 01, 2025 9:03 am - He was 55, a warehouse worker and father of three. He survived a heart attack, but the bills nearly destroyed his family. Even with health insurance, his costs soared int...
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Crisis has extended beyond ConstitutionSep 01, 2025 9:03 am - With Trump’s threats to send the National Guard into Chicago, we have moved past the stage of doubt about a “possible constitutional crisis”; what we are facing is a coup...