Category: Opinion

Ask Grandpa: On education, life’s experiences, bad lens

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the August 26, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Voice: Early prevention the best solution

August 8, 2022Dear editor; The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a national health emergency. The first case was diagnosed May 19. By June 3, there were 21 cases and now, we are up to more than 10,000. What did authorities do to prevent the first few cases from spreading? If...

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Arguments on faulty premise, veterans, Mar-a-Lago

There are a couple of things I want to get out of the way. Recently, Mr. Bill “QAnon” Suhayda descended from the mother ship (where he’s been busy deflecting Jewish space lasers and, with the My Pillow Guy, searching through cyberspace to find the missing Trump votes hijacked from Dominion...

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Ask Grandpa: On a biblical dispute, a loss of population

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the August 19, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Voice: Commandments include not to kill

August 4, 2022Dear editor; In the June 30 edition of The Voice, Deena Sherman wrote “Change in Roe v. Wade requires understanding and action.” She mentions “The God of the Christian Faith does not work through the law, but through the Gospel of salvation through grace.” God does deal with...

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Reader’s Voice: Correction on murder rate in U.S.

August 6, 2022Dear editor; I hate to see your fine publication being used to spread false propaganda, so a response is necessary. In his July 30 letter to the editor, published August 4, Leonard Wass claimed that the U.S. is third in the world in murders, but that if one...

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Ask Grandpa: Advice: Just ignore received E-mail scams

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the August 12, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Voice: Strong gun control laws ineffective

July 30, 2022Dear editor; Once again The Voice published letters filled with emotional blathering. This time regarding gun control. There’s a solid solution which would end all such gun control debate. The following facts clearly point to the problem and the solution: • International statistics show the USA is third...

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Reader’s Commentary: Three commentaries: Responses

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Here are responses to Judy Siedlecki, Marjorie Logman, Wayne Johnson! Judy Siedlecki wrote, “In Uvalde (Texas), the myth that a good guy with a gun is all you need against a bad guy with a gun was demolished when 14 good guys in the school with...

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Climate change real! Change from gas/oil to heal

By now, unless you’ve been living in a cave or Washington, D.C., you’ve come to realize that climate change is real. It happens every few thousand years due to the Earth’s wobble on its axis. That’s just life in the big city and there’s nothing Earthlings can do about it....

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Ask Grandpa: On stopping scams, pre-teen responsibility

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the August 5, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Voice: U.S. justices followed Constitution

July 21, 2022Dear editor; I see that Charles Coddington in The Voice July 14 asserted that the U.S. Supreme Court justices were incorrect in their decision with Roe V. Wade. He asserts that some legal scholars, none of which he names, may be full of fluff. He uses “pretzel-like” language...

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Reader’s Voice: Needed: Guts, brains, to change

July 22, 2022Dear editor; Imagine a tax that confiscates one-half of the purchasing power of your entire life savings in less than eight short years! That’s what the current 9.1% inflation rate is doing to you and your family’s financial security. It cuts the purchasing power of your current wages...

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Ask Grandpa: Snake oil salesmen sure sound sensational

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the July 29, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Nothing private, protected, in new age of surveillance

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Nothing is private. We teeter on the cusp of a cultural, technological and societal revolution, the likes of which have never been seen previously Although the political Left and Right continue to make abortion the face of the debate over the right to...

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Reader’s Commentary: We must decide on values, what type of prosperity

By Marjorie Logman,Aurora, Ill. I have been thinking about the state of affairs in the United States, especially considering elections are coming up. Experts say that many will vote according to the economy. I realize being a senior on a fixed income that it is an issue. Rent and food...

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Reader’s Commentary: Bumbling Joe Biden not helpful to the many U.S. positions

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The first thing president Joe Biden did taking office was to reduce our oil supplies by cutting the XL Keystone Pipeline and halting our drilling on federal land and shutting down our oil refineries. The president was following the advice of 16 year old Gretta Thunberg,...

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Ask Grandpa: On solving problems: Scratch on car, divorce

Editor’s note: Recently in The Voice, the announcement was made of the death of the conductor of the column, Ask Grandpa, which provided readers with 503 weeks of sage advice, humor, and continuity. Below is the repeat of the July 22, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Voice: Objection to letter’s view

July 5, 2022Dear editor; In The Voice June 30 edition there was another emotional rant by the same person who has had her liberal views published in the Reader’s Voice several times. This diatribe regarded the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion that returned abortion decisions to the states...

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Reader’s Voice: Mass shootings: Clear indications

July 6, 2022Dear editor; Ho hum, another mass shooting, only this time a little closer to home. The weapon used? Yup, you guessed it… an assault-style rifle, capable of belching out 30 rounds of human-obliterating ammo per clip. The shooter in Highland Park, Ill.? A young, white, male who legally...

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