Category: Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Scams: Telemarketing, AI, social media

February 11, 2025Dear editor; It has been on my mind to write about my concern online technology is taking our resources of personal time, taking resources of electricity, and is re-allocating capital and private investments into computers instead of humans. I have never felt accepting of telemarketing calls. Advertising can...

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Reader’s Commentary: Democrats against audit, DOGE to root out wasteful spending

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Democrats, along with Chuck “Chucky Cheese” Schumer, “Wayne’s World” Johnson and Charles “The Sponge” Coddington, yell from the rooftops DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) should stop investigations into how our hard earned tax dollars are spent. They don’t want the IRS, Treasury, or Pentagon audited...

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Reader’s Voice: ‘April Fools Day’ Tax Referendum

February 7, 2025Dear editor; Taxpayers are the government’s “bankers of last resort”. When politicians over-spend and over-tax in fiscally irresponsible ways, it’s ultimately up to us taxpayers to say “no more”. According to its audited financial statements filed with the Illinois State Comptroller, the Kane County Board’s Ruling Democrat Super-Majority...

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Reader’s Voice: Writer supports Laesch for Aurora mayor

February 5, 2025Dear editor; I am amazed at how often Aurora is mentioned on the news about special events now that it is election time. I can’t remember ever seeing so many events. I am asking that voters please review the candidates running for mayor, please check what their plans...

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Reader’s Voice: Bird Flu terrible, as is factory farming

February 6, 2025Dear editor; The sight of ducks, crows, and other birds dying along Lake Michigan’s shores due to bird flu is a grim reminder of how our food choices harm animals. On filthy factory farms, thousands of stressed chickens are crammed together, providing ideal breeding grounds for pathogens because...

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Author’s thoughts on Aurora Amtrak, RiverEdge Park

By Ricky Rieckert Dear “The Voice” Readers: As we enter this week, I took our Aurora history tour bus in for a tire repair and decided to get an oil change, also. It should be ready to roll, next week. •Last week, I touched on building a new train depot...

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Sins of Trump; find budget cuts at Pentagon

Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter one). He has: Selected to head various government agencies persons whose only “qualifications” are limited to absolute loyalty to him; Rescinded birth-right citizenship for immigrant children whose only home has been the U.S.; Withdrawn (again!) the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement;...

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Sleepwalking into tyranny: How power is silently being seized

By John & Nisha Whitehead How something is done is just as important as why something is done. To suggest that the ends justify the means is to launch oneself down a moral, ethical and legal rabbit hole that leaves us in a totalitarian bind. We are already halfway down...

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Reader’s Voice: League of Women Voters Aurora forums

February 3, 2025Dear editor; As the Spring Election is in full swing, the League of Women Voters-Aurora Area is conducting forums for area candidates in the contested races for Mayor of Aurora and various offices in Kane and Kendall counties. Forums are designed to provide a safe space for candidates...

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Reader’s Voice: Out of retirement, writer gives analysis

February 3, 2025Dear editor; Hello Marilyn Giese, you are pulling me out of my writing retirement, based on Gaza genocide letter. I have been active in politics starting 1964, Illinois government, abortion yes, life no! Killing became a legal opportunity to kill your own conceived child for money. That opened...

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I think I’ll stay in bed for the next four years

Chaos reigns supreme once again as the newly elected buffoon-in-chief, Donald Trump, wields his permanent marker, jumping right into imposition of the actions outlined in Project 2025 for all Americans to enjoy. Each morning from now on when I wake up I’ll be wondering what the convicted felon and sexual...

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Reader’s Commentary: Failed Democratic Party ploys; Trump to fix nation

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda How bad does your message have to be to lose an election to Adolph Hitler? I would surmise…pretty bad. Yet this is what happened to the Democrats, Kamala Harris and “Tampon” Tim Walz November 5, 2024. They were calling Donald Trump, Hitler for a decade. Did...

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Rise of the immortal dictator: AI, freedom, and government

By John & Nisha Whitehead “At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018) Get ready for Surveillance...

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Reader’s Voice: Donald Trump and the rule of law

January 27, 2025Dear editor; Concerning Donald Trump and the rule of law. Thoughts of an honest, compassionate, non-corrupt Executive Branch of the United States government proved delusional when we as the American electorate voted Trump, once again, as our president and supposed leader of the free world. For some Trump...

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Reader’s Voice: Presidential pardons, detrimental to law

January 23, 2025Dear editor; Our most recent presidents, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, have collectively granted more than 11,700 pardons, with president Biden holding the record at more than 8,000 pardons. By granting a pardon voids not only the offence, but it can void the monetary damages owed...

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Inauguration Day, professor B.S., water in California

Musings: •Inauguration Day has come and gone, and we have a dictator in the White House who threatened/promised he would be. Previously, following tradition, the U.S. flag had been lowered to half-mast in order to commemorate the passing of former president Jimmy Carter. The commemoration is observed for 30 days...

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Constitution gone: Presidential power grabs to martial law

John & Nisha Whitehead That didn’t take long. Within days of Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights disappeared from the White House’s website. While the Donald Trump Administration insists the removal of these foundational documents will eventually be restored to the site, the timing and...

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Trump inauguration, start of an era of regression

By the time you read this (you are reading this, aren’t you?) the Donald Trump presidential Inauguration, or as I prefer to call it the Prelude to Armageddon, is in the history books. The ceremony was moved inside so the incoming criminal-in-chief wouldn’t be embarrassed by a small crowd size...

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Reader’s Voice: Presidents not all the same

January 11, 2025Dear editor; Trump says: I didn’t do anything wrong; It was a perfect phone call; It’s a hoax, witch hunt; Fake news; It’s not Russia; I’m going to build a great wall and have Mexico pay for it; I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and...

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Chas and Trump agree on DST; Fox News fumbles

Musings: •Would you believe, dear reader, that T. Rump and The Chas are on the same page on something? The “something” is Daylight Savings Time (DST). The man who would be king thinks that DST is “inconvenient,” while the man who is smarter than he is thinks it is ”unnecessary,”...

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