Articles filed under Opinion
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The real reason?Jan 19, 2026 4:00 am - I figured why Donald Trump wants Greenland. Two-thirds of Greenland is under ice, (nothing to do with Homeland Security), I mean a glacier. This is an ideal place to bury...
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Those in power retell our historyJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - Our history is being retold: Jan. 6, 2021, was reframed as a peaceful rally on Capitol Hill. Even Biden’s performance at the first presidential debate with Donald Trump w...
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Helping to cover up a tragic eventJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - In his Jan. 14 opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, George J. Terwillinger III wrote: “Last week, after an ICE agent shot and killed a civilian who was driving her c...
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A familiar tragedyJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - The front page story of the brutal killing of an unarmed Minnesota mother of three (Renee Good) by an ICE agent shooting her with three shots to the head and then walking...
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Fix the potholes first?Jan 19, 2026 4:00 am - Perhaps our elected officials should consider providing funds to fix the potholes throughout the Chicago area before they consider funding infrastructure for a new Bears’...
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How many more?Jan 19, 2026 4:00 am - The senseless shooting death in Minneapolis is the latest, but sadly, probably not the last that will be perpetrated by the tin soldier brigades deployed across the count...
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Let’s go back to being law-abiding countryJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - While I understand why some people feel the force used by ICE is excessive at times, I can’t help but wonder why these same people weren’t as angry when the previous admi...
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Congressman produces resultsJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - The GOP’s not-very-practical plan for health insurance is “don’t get sick.” Congressman Brad Schneider takes a different and much more practical approach. He has been a l...
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Good adviceJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - Recently a young woman from Sugar Grove wrote “ ‘ We the people’ need to heed the words of President Obama.” I couldn’t agree more. When he was Sen. Obama, he said, “We s...
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Next for clean energy: permitting reformJan 19, 2026 4:00 am - Gov. Pritzker’s signature this month on comprehensive energy legislation that promotes renewables is a welcome sign for people like me coping with high electricity bills ...