Category: Opinion

Reader’s Commentary: Fear an explanation for conspiracy theories

By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. This essay is a focus on conspiracy theories. The latest is wondering how media could anticipate the March 10 failure of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The details of the collapse were in the Nation/World section of The Sun-Times, Sunday March 12 by the Associated Press....

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Geofence technology cell phone location dangerous intrusion

By John & Nisha Whitehead If you give the government an inch, it will always take a mile. This situation is how the slippery slope to all-out persecution starts. This particular slippery slope has to do with the government’s use of geofence technology, which uses cell phone location data to...

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Reader’s Voice: Aurora can revert: Place for all

March 13, 2023Dear editor; “I Sold my Soul to the Company Store.” That is the title to an old song often sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford. I thought it describes very well our current City Hall government in Aurora. With its rules of loyalty, a specific lingo, and misuse of...

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Reader’s Voice: Objection to the H.O.A. excessive rules in Plano Club

February 25, 2023 Dear editor; I’ve been living in the Lakewood Springs Club Community for a few months now. There are way too many rules that are a bit on the petty side of things. We moved into this Club to enjoy our lives and break away from the craziness...

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Reader’s Voice: Personal experience: SNAP important

March 6, 2023Dear editor; When I was growing up in the 1950s my mom was a single parent raising my three older brothers and me on a low-paid job and no food assistance. I remember when I was six years old leaving food on my plate each night that she...

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Bureaucratic laws overbearing with under representation

By John & Nisha Whitehead It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American...

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U.S. military continues as police force of the world

By John & Nisha Whitehead “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love...

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Reader’s Voice: Opening Day, Spring, nearly here

February 15, 2023Dear editor; Even as the world may be going to hell in a hand basket, as Grandma used to say, and at the risk of sounding frivolous, millions of Americans will share at least a temporary respite March 30 when Major League Baseball’s Opening Day takes place across...

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Super Bowl ends; back to political candidates, rhetoric

Super Bowl LV@&q*I#^I% is officially history. The Monday Morning QBs are in their glory and everyone has chosen a favorite Super Bowl commercial. Now it’s time to return to election season that never seems to end. Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your TV, or other...

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U.S. problems continue, foreign interests intertwined

By John & Nisha Whitehead Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide, and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity, and happiness. These are not problems the politicians want...

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Irony: Black police brutally commit murder in Memphis

When a black man, a son, father, brother, nephew, and a friend loses his life at the hands of five black now ex-cops, mere miles from where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid down his life, it’s hard to talk about racial progress and to celebrate Black History Month. April...

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We are obligated to avoid future Memphis tragedies

By Keith M. Cross, Chief of Police, Aurora Police Department Saturday, Jan. 7, similar to many other people all over the world, I watched the horrific events that unfolded during a police/civilian interaction in Memphis, Tenn.. When I watched Tyre Nichols being beaten by several police officers after being pulled...

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Steroid use and abuse by police cause for concern

By John & Nisha Whitehead That the police officers charged with the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols are black is a distraction. Don’t be distracted. This latest instance of police brutality is not about racism in policing, or black-on-black violence. The entire institution is corrupt. The old guard, made...

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Sex traffick widespread; cure must be taken seriously

By John & Nisha Whitehead It takes a special kind of evil to both promote prostitution and traffick a child for sex, and yet this evil walks among us every minute every day. Consider: Every two minutes, a child is bought and sold for sex. Hundreds of young girls and...

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Reader’s Voice: Needed: Action by Congress on storms

January 16, 2023Dear editor; Keep pressure on lawmakers to combat climate change. The news of storms and flooding hitting California in recent days is yet another wake-up call about the terrible social and economic costs of climate change. Rising temperatures with climate change causes the air to hold more moisture...

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In ubiquitous surveillance society, everything public

By John & Nisha Whitehead In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: Everything is public. Surveillance cameras mounted on utility poles, traffic lights, businesses, and homes. License plate readers. Ring doorbells. GPS devices. Dash cameras. Drones. Store security cameras. Geofencing and geotracking. FitBits. Alexa. Internet-connected devices....

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Reader’s Voice: False equivalency in plain sight

January 16, 2023 Dear editor; Usually Donald Trump brags about having the most and the biggest, the most money, the most wives, the biggest, tallest, buildings, all the while being the biggest liar, at least until George Santos landed in Kevin McCarthy’s slim majority in Congress. It was unusual when...

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Trust in government growing negative to undermine rights

By John & Nisha Whitehead How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the U.S. Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one only...

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Reader’s Voice: Definition of democracy oldie, goodie

January 9, 2023Dear editor; What is the definition of democracy? Newly- elected House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said it best: “House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, Benevolence over bigotry, the Constitution over the cult, Democracy over demagogues, Economic opportunity over extremism, Freedom over fascism, Governing over...

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Future: Greater governmental, corporate, regulation in view

By John & Nisha Whitehead For those wondering what to expect from the government this year, it looks as though we’re going to be in for more of the same in the government’s brand of madness, mayhem, corruption, and brutality. Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are...

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