Letters to the Editor
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Losing faith in Supreme CourtOct 13, 2025 4:00 am - I think it’s important at this time to quote what is, perhaps, my favorite scene in a movie. This comes from The American President (1995): “America isn’t easy. America i...
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More to learn about fear of policeOct 13, 2025 4:00 am - This is in response to Bill Blaine’s comments on Sept. 19 asking “Why run?” Mr. Blaine, as a white female and a member of the CARE team (Committee for Anti-Racism and Equ...
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Take medical advice only from doctorsOct 13, 2025 4:00 am - My professional medical advice is don’t take medical advice from people who are not doctors. I am an old pediatrician, and I can remember doing two or three spinal taps a...
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Enjoy the adventure of readingOct 12, 2025 4:00 am - In the week just past, libraries across the nation shined a spotlight on Banned Books Week, a celebration of something simple but powerful: the Freedom to Read. Banned Bo...
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Tell what is happeningOct 12, 2025 4:00 am - One night last week in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Blackhawk helicopters hovered, ICE agents rappelled down and others got out of unmarked vehicles and raide...
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True fairness in electionsOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Keith Raffel’s column on Sunday espouses an idea brought up every election cycle, that all electoral votes be ascribed to the national winner of the popular vote instead ...
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Let’s negotiateOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Many Americans don’t want immigrants here illegally to get free health care of any kind. Well, we have a government that can negotiate with other governments. Can’t the g...
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The ‘Catch 22’ of unions and costsOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - I was kind of shocked by Frank Manzo's column on Illinois workers rights in the Daily Herald of Oct. 5. Mr. Manzo seems to promote Illinois workers’ rights and unionizati...
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Must forum be silenced?Oct 09, 2025 11:34 am - Since the online forum of the Daily Herald was suddenly stopped, I recall when engaged with someone whose opinion differed greatly from mine, that I would respond by sayi...
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Protests do make a differenceOct 09, 2025 11:33 am - Over the past months, I overcame my hesitancy and stood in various locations in the Western suburbs with fellow participants in protests. At each one, we showed our opini...