Letters to the Editor
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Work with fathers should earn votesAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - When longtime Congressman Danny K. Davis decided not to run for a 16th consecutive term, he had to decide who to endorse. In the end, he endorsed state Rep. La Shawn Ford...
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Hold vote on grocery taxAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - The proposed 1% grocery tax in Mount Prospect is presented as a replacement for the state’s repealed tax, but a tax is a tax, whether it’s on groceries, property or fees....
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A blueprint for success for DemocratsAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - Reflecting on the article “They roll right over,” the Democratic Party is perceived as “weak” and “ineffective” in thwarting the growing power and influence of the curren...
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Public figures must learn how to be rightAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - Hunter Biden needs to learn how to be right. You can be noble-right or bitter-right. In his recent YouTube series Channel 5 interview, he seemed to embrace the latter. Th...
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Despotic behaviorAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - Texan Republicans cannot convincingly argue that those Texan State House Democrats who left the state are abandoning their offices as state representatives, when, by thei...
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Word choice and a leader’s loyalty to AmericaAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - Re: “I'm a proud Guatemalan…” I can say that “I’m a proud Italian before I’m an American” since my father emigrated from Italy and I was born in America, but I would blem...
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Texas ironyAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - How ironic that Texas Democrats “flee” the low-tax, growing Republican-led state to “seek refuge” in high-tax, population-losing Democrat-led states like Illinois, New Yo...
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Playing gamesAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - I find it funny how the Texas Democrats pulled a page out of the Wisconsin Democrat playbook by running away for their jobs and taking a vacation when they don’t get what...
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LaughableAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - I had to laugh at JB Pritzker’s threat to redistrict Illinois’s Congressional Districts in response to Texas’s plan. Haven’t the Democrats already gerrymandered Illinois ...
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Acting like childrenAug 10, 2025 4:00 am - I am trying to figure out why it is only OK when Democrats use gerrymandering. Illinois Democrats have been using it for years, even under our current governor. When a Re...