Letters to the Editor
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Let’s show compassionJan 19, 2024 5:51 pm - Imagine being on a long and perilous journey to the promised land of America. When arriving, you are tired, thirsty, cold and scared. Due to circumstances beyond your con...
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Who's drowning out your voice?Jan 19, 2024 5:49 pm - Jan. 21 is the 14th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision to allow unlimited spending by corporations on electioneering communications. We all ...
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The circus of congressional hearingsJan 19, 2024 4:51 pm - Hunter Biden leaves a House Oversight Committee markup on Wednesday, Jan. 10, as they consider a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena las...
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Reform Medicare Advantage practicesJan 19, 2024 4:50 pm - Despite its name, “Medicare Advantage” (MA) is not an advantage for seniors and people with disabilities. It’s not even the same Medicare program that Americans have come...
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Saying ‘grats’ at dinner can help ease stressJan 19, 2024 12:04 pm - When we read in newspapers every day about problems and tragedies occurring locally, nationally and internationally, it’s easy to become distressed. That’s good if it lea...
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Surely, Founders did not intend such immunityJan 19, 2024 12:03 pm - Is it possible? Did the Founding Fathers, the authors of the Constitution, intend that a sitting president should be immune to any crime committed while in office? In tod...
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Jan 19, 2024 12:00 pm - When we moved from Ohio to Illinois we assumed that our son David would move into a small group home in a neighborhood. When we started looking for placement, we were tol...
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A duty of the coherentJan 19, 2024 10:07 am - It seems these days there is another attempt to rewrite long ago history and a more recent attempt to rewrite current events – such as, in the Civil War it wasn’t the Sou...
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The lesson behind busing migrantsJan 19, 2024 10:06 am - I write in response to your Jan. 10 “Where else to turn” editorial. You call Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s transport of people who have illegally breached the Texas portion of...
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Christie catches upJan 17, 2024 3:27 pm - Chris Christie has known Donald Trump for 22 years (his own words). Quite the revelation for him to finally determine that Trump is a misogynist and a danger to democracy...