Letters to the Editor
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Who’s really paying?Mar 31, 2025 4:00 am - Let me see if I have this correct; President Trump is annoyed that President Zelenskyy lacks gratitude for the billions that he has gotten from American taxpayers over th...
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Mar 31, 2025 4:00 am - Let’s be honest with ourselves Benjamin Franklin said that the Constitution would be served well for years and then collapse in despotism. One of the other Founding Fathe...
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Give great minds incentive on climateMar 31, 2025 4:00 am - Believing that humans have an effect on climate change is similar to believing in God. If your beliefs are correct, you adjust your life accordingly and you have a much b...
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Disgraceful Dems during Trump speechMar 31, 2025 4:00 am - During President Trump’s speech to Congress earlier this month, I could not believe that the Democratic Illinois members would not even stand up when several people in th...
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Can we survive these disappointing times?Mar 31, 2025 4:00 am - In the 1980s and ‘90s, I spent 10 years in uniform, stationed in Europe. The Soviets had gobbled up much of Eastern and Central Europe after World War II. They were the W...
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Learn from historyMar 31, 2025 4:00 am - Our political leaders would do well to learn from the past. What goes around comes around. Guarantees of peace made by countries are tenuous at best. Consider the ultimat...
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Cutting NIH funding could be devastatingMar 30, 2025 4:00 am - I can only assume that the president and the Republicans have no understanding of biomedical research funding and the critical nature of the NIH in this funding. While th...
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What governor should not sit still forMar 30, 2025 4:00 am - Gov. Pritzker recently stated as quoted in the March 14 edition of the Daily Herald that, “I'm not going to sit still for it” concerning the dismantling of the U.S. Depar...
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Meaningful doctrineMar 30, 2025 4:00 am - Who can fault the idea of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion? What could go wrong? Well, more than two centuries ago, the idea of Liberty-Equality-Fraternity was hoisted as the d...
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Time for change on township boardMar 28, 2025 4:00 am - Wheeling Township does a lot of really good work in our community. Unfortunately, the current board did not enact the will of the voters regarding the 708 Referendum appr...