By Dr. Glenn Mollette Halloween and the election are really close. People will hardly have time to take off their scary costumes before entering the voting booths. It is unclear as to what will be the most frightening, the scary costumes or the candidates. The outcome of the election will
October 19, 2026Dear editor; We must put an end to the childish campaign tactics we see far too often in our elections. Negative campaigning may be an effective way to win elections, but does it help elect the best, most qualified candidates? Or are we simply giving in to negativity,
By Heidi Kolbeck-Urlacher, policy director, Center for Rural Affairs For weeks, candidate ads have dominated television viewing. Text messages and phone calls are nonstop. Yard signs are popping up like my late season tomatoes. Much of this messaging is for candidates who will serve in Washington, D.C., or in the
Thank the Lord, Election Day is almost here and the unending stream of broadcast, snail mailed, emailed and texted versions of I’m-the-best-candidate-for-anything-and-everything-in-your-insignificant-lives political messages will be finished; for about a week, anyway, until the new stream of aforementioned begins for the next elections a year or two away. Think about
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Our soldiers fight Islam and Communism around the world, then Charles Coddington, contributor to The Voice, types vote those we’re fighting into office in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, California…. It makes no sense, unless you consider Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) fanatics
By John & Nisha Whitehead There was a time when thinking for yourself was considered a virtue. These days, it can make you a political outcast. Question the Democrats, and you’re accused of being a Republican. Question the Republicans, and you’re branded a Democrat. Criticize Donald Trump, and you’re dismissed
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Silence may or may not be golden. You may be hungry for a little bit of silence or terrified of the quiet. Silence can be deafening, but it all depends on the circumstances. Often the noise of the world and all that is going on can
October 3, 2026Dear editor; Voters of the City of Aurora, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties, Illinois: Please vote “Yes” on the Aurora Mayoral Recall Referendum Tuesday, Nov. 3. Aurora Voters will get to exercise an inalienable right that is a part of our heritage as Americans, to equip ourselves
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 22). He has placed his signature on the $100 bill “in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America”; Pardoned six persons who tampered with air pollution equipment in their automobiles in violation of the Clean Air Act; Brought
By John & Nisha Whitehead The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. Aggressive ICE raids. Government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents. Public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests. Government leaders who glorify violence, spew
By Dr. Glenn Mollette What keeps you living? Do you enjoy life? Are you happy for the opportunity to be in the world, breathe the air, see the beauty of God’s creation? Do you enjoy family, friends and daily life? What is your reason for living? None of us chose
Did you ever want to be famous? I mean the instantly recognizable Elvis Presley or Howdy Doody type of fame where people keep you in their memory ad infinitum (“He’s not really dead” and “He’s not really a puppet”). I did at one time, but eventually figured it was better
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda All my life I’ve told people of the hell communism is. I’ve even written a book about it entitled “From Tyranny to Liberty.” I’ve exchanged books with Cubans and Eastern Europeans who have experienced what I’ve experienced. We all tell similar stories. There is a common
By John & Nisha Whitehead The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you a lie. Case in point: Donald Trump promised to shrink the federal government. But what if Trump’s pledge to cut the federal work force wasn’t really about eliminating government bureaucracy
By Dr. Glenn Mollette A few years back my wife’s parents passed and the time came to sell their house. The house was nice and had nice furniture. When the house sold a lot of their belongings ended up on the street for anyone to carry off. Even though there
September 20, 2026Dear editor; An interesting meeting was held September 14 at Santori Library in Aurora. A write-up covering the meeting was in the September 17 Beacon-News about the meeting on data centers. It interested me to observe all the open-ended and uncertain, not to mention confusing, issues surrounding data
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Life becomes more difficult if we give up. Impossible may be a better way to describe quitting. Once we quit then how can we expect to go forward or be successful? We can’t because the runner wins by staying in the race. Only one person wins
September 27, 2026 Dear editor; It takes years of reciprocal trust and patience to forge meaningful relationships into friendships. It takes only minutes to destroy them. This is true, in an intricately more complicated way, with nation-states, where the consequences of either trusting or not trusting between the world’s people,
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda John Fitzgerald Kennedy suffered severe back pain his entire adult life, first due to a football injury at Harvard and then when his P.T. boat was rammed by a Japanese Destroyer during World War II. In excruciating pain, on a dark night, he swam 3.5 miles
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Fall has arrived. This is not earth shattering news, but very welcome news if you have been living in 95 degree plus heat. For those of us who have, we are welcoming cooler temperatures. Autumn can be several weeks of happy weather, but by the time
