Letters to the Editor
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Election Day holiday?Sep 05, 2025 6:01 am - With the Republicans wanting to end mail-in voting despite it having been around for over a century under the name “absentee ballots,” why don't they try making Election ...
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Minnesota shooting another wakeup callSep 05, 2025 6:00 am - The tragic shooting of children and other worshippers praying in a church at a Catholic school by a depressed, hateful trans female armed with weapons with hate messages ...
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All we need is will to help climateSep 04, 2025 9:03 am - It’s been quite a summer: near-record heat waves beginning in June, smoke-filled skies from the Canadian wildfires, flash flooding brought on by extreme rain events. And ...
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What don’t they get?Sep 04, 2025 9:03 am - I found Mr. Slusher’s column regarding the governor’s statement about reporting on the National Guard issue in Chicago somewhat refreshing. Admitting that news and opini...
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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...