Letters to the Editor
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Inflation ‘blame’Oct 12, 2024 4:00 am - I wholeheartedly agree with Richard Murdock’s letter headlined “Simple inflation.” Since inflation and cost of living are leading concerns today and key election issues, ...
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Election PollsOct 12, 2024 4:00 am - Gotta love them. On any given day, Trump is ahead or Harris is ahead. Quite frankly, depends on who’s doing the polling and who their samples are. The polls haven’t been ...
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We need strength in dangerous timeOct 12, 2024 4:00 am - When Biden bowed out of the campaign due to mental capacity issues, Kamala Harris stepped in. But of course, her record is the same as Biden’s — disaster in the Afghan wi...
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No electioneering near polling placesOct 12, 2024 4:00 am - Under state law, polling places in Illinois are campaign-free zones. I wish the media would do a better job reporting on this fact to help inform the public of the shared...
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Expand availability of child careOct 12, 2024 4:00 am - In August, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a remarkable advisory that identified parental stress as an urgent public health issue. A parent’s top job is ensuring the well...
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A rare endorsementOct 11, 2024 12:49 pm - Scientific American, for only the second time in its 179-year history, has endorsed a presidential candidate. That person is Kamala Harris. The reason for the premier sci...
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Understanding inflationOct 11, 2024 12:46 pm - Inflation is a complex issue with no single cause. There are numerous theories on the causes of the most recent period of inflation. In today’s ‘point the finger of blame...
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Equality vs. equityOct 11, 2024 12:42 pm - I wonder if Ms. Guider (Your Views from Oct. 1) understands the difference between equity and equality. She extols the virtues of DEI while that concept is shown to be di...
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High school football risksOct 11, 2024 12:42 pm - In the recent discussion of safety in high school football, one thing that I didn’t see mentioned was the responsibility of parents to consider well the long-term effects...
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Tenets to live byOct 11, 2024 12:41 pm - Just finished reading in the Oct. 1 paper, one of the best columns ever printed in a newspaper (Marc Munroe Dion, “Old girlfriends, the sixth bourbon and Donald Trump”). ...