Category: Opinion

Ask Grandpa: On finding positive results from negativity

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 March 4, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Ask Grandpa: Shop: Better cash in hand than hat in hand

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 February 25, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Challenge: Hold governments accountable; speak freely

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. What we are dealing with is a government so power-hungry, paranoid and afraid of...

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Reader’s Voice: Answer: Love thy neighbor….

February 8, 2022Dear editor; It is an irony that former president Donald Trump finds himself facing a couple of district attorneys who are African American and that he is calling them “racists” just because of the color of their skin. He has said, “They are coming after you.” It is...

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Reader’s Commentary: On schools: Serve both our students, parents

By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. Our children are the future. What we teach them, along with what we don’t teach them, will have benefits and consequences. When I was just a fledgling teacher, a veteran colleague impressed upon me the idea; “We are always teaching something, so we need...

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Ask Grandpa: Scams may have underlying, lethal, twists

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 February 18, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Shrinking freedom, illusory rights, continue for ‘we the people’

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead We are no longer free. We are living in a world carefully crafted to resemble a representative democracy, but it’s an illusion. We think we have the freedom to elect our leaders, but we’re only allowed to participate in the reassurance ritual of...

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Ask Grandpa: Thoughts for Valentine’s Day on just love

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 February 11, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Bumpy ride: Federal motor vehicle safety standard

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.”—Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Joe Biden administration’s...

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Reader’s Voice: Request for Rescue Plan inclusion

January 27, 2022Dear editor; After looking at the application for American Rescue Plan Act funds in the respective portal on the Kane County Board website, I believe County leaders made a tremendous oversight by excluding community organizations that help grow food, teach people to grow food, and provide organic and...

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Reader’s Commentary: Political campaigns should be reality-based and decent

By Marjorie LogmanAurora, Ill. Nipping it in the bud is actually a gardening term which proves itself true and I believe can be adapted to other circumstances especially the voices of the Republican Party candidates for governor. I want to start with Richard Irvin’s blaming governor JB Pritzker for crime...

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Ask Grandpa: On mulling over the rationale of columns

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 February 4, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Authoritarian madness conduit to time of tyranny

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead In the politically-charged, polarizing tug-of-war that is the debate over COVID-19, we find ourselves buffeted by fear over a viral pandemic that continues to wreak havoc with lives and the economy, threats of vaccine mandates and financial penalties for noncompliance, and discord over...

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Ask Grandpa: Pandemic ripple effects cause of problems

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 January 28, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Ask Grandpa: On good health, twice, and a bet for pizza

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 January 21, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Commentary: On exception to expressed views

By Bela SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. I read with some interest, then humor, Wayne Johnson’s account of what, in his opinion, I had written in the December 30 issue of The Voice, thevoice.us/probing-reactions-to-readers-voice-on-kenosha-shooter, concerning Kyle Rittenhouse and what transpired the fateful night, August 25, 2020 what the 17-year- old, at the...

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Ask Grandpa: Each has a real voice in the U.S. elections

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 January 14, 2021 column. The Voice will continue to offer previous...

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Reader’s Voice: Representative’s goals remain: Better State

January 3, 2022Dear editor; As we enter the new year, many of us are making resolutions. We may be resolving to exercise more often, take up a journaling practice, or choose more vegetables over sweets. This year begins my final year in the Illinois House representing the 97th District and...

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Reader’s Commentary: Coping: Learn fully on retroviruses

By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. I finally found out what the official classification of the COVID-19 virus is! The exclamation point is included because of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses evidently was at the bottom of the Google browser priority. I found the answer (Type IV, SARS-1 and MERS)...

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Probing reactions to Reader’s Voice on Kenosha shooter

Happy New Year, to The Voice readers. And an especially happy one to readers of my 100-per-cent fact-free educational material right here on this page. Without a doubt, you’ve already gained a higher social standing in your community, a standing that will continue to rise to new heights with your...

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