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
September 11, 2026Dear editor; I have a friend who is dying, but she’s a fighter. Not fighting against death, but fighting for her best life until the end. You wouldn’t know she is dying if she didn’t tell you. She is too busy living than to dwell on what is
September 16, 2026Dear editor; Attacking other contributors to this publication seems to be popular with the likes of Bill (B.S.) Suhayda and Leonard Wass, so I thought I would take the opportunity to do some attacking of my own. Both of these guys are clearly among the blind supporters of
Oh, me! Oh, my! What do I spy? Contributor to The Voice, Bela Suhayda, apparently still hasn’t read the definitions of “communism” and “socialism” yet. He still wallows in capitalist propaganda. There’s a saying in Illinois (courtesy of former president Barack Obama): “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s
By John & Nisha Whitehead What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364? September 17 marked the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a document designed not merely to establish a government, but to
By Stephanie Kifowit We marked the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001—a day that forever changed our Nation and remains deeply personal for so many Americans. I remember that day vividly, as many do. I was working at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the time and I was just in
September 1, 2026Dear editor; Most recently, the Illinois Tollway Authority approved another significant toll increase. Beginning January 1, 2027, passenger-vehicle tolls will rise by approximately 45 cents per toll, while commercial-vehicle rates will increase by approximately 30%. These increases will directly affect working families, daily commuters, truck drivers, and small
By John & Nisha Whitehead Twenty-five years after 9/11, one has to ask: Has the nightmare ever really ended? For a quarter-century, Americans have been governed by fear: Fear of terrorists and foreign enemies, fear of domestic extremists and political opponents, fear of the next attack, the next crisis, the
September 2, 2026Dead editor; I recently read the Reader’s Commentary, “Socialism/Communism: Denies individual freedoms, worth.” I appreciate the author’s concern for individual freedom, personal responsibility, and the value of hard work. Those are important principles, and I think they are shared by most people across the political spectrum. Where I
By John & Nisha Whitehead For years, we have been warning that the U.S. Supreme Court would not save us from the American police state. That warning has not grown less urgent. It has simply become more complicated. The danger today is not merely that courts will favor order and
August 29, 2026Dear editor; The City of Aurora has been my home for more than 25 years. I raised my family here, built a home, and became a small-business owner. I am deeply invested in this community and its future. It is disheartening to see neighboring communities such as Batavia,
August 28, 2026Dear editor; Please allow me to summarize Judy Siedlicki’s letter to the editor in The Voice last week. In short she wrote that she doesn’t like everything about the communist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America who hate America, but she still supports them. Ms Siedlicki should be
We haven’t heard much about the Canadian wildfires sending smoke our way recently. That story has kind of headed to the back burner. But we Americans should not overlook how the Canadian smoke pollution pushed our own homemade air pollution out of our skies. Admittedly, we can’t blame the fires
By John & Nisha Whitehead What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. To president Trump, it seems, a ballroom by any other name is a bunker.
By Dr. Glenn Mollette We all need a few strategies for navigating the highway of life. Here is a simple rule. Don’t fight with people at a buffet. When someone breaks in front of you to grab for the fried chicken or mashed potatoes then simply back off. Let them
