October 5, 2020Dear editor; The traffic noise that comes from Orchard Road into Sans Souci on Aurora’s West Side and other residential areas north and south along Orchard, is one of the biggest quality of life issues in Kane County District 4. This otherwise quiet neighborhood sounds just like the...
Grandpa,Hey gramps, what I got stuck in my claw has been stuck on mind for the last five years, I work for an individual that owns a small independent company. He’s honestly a complete jerk and thinks he has his finger wrapped around me (his assuming that I’m not going...
By John W. Whitehead Republicans and Democrats alike fear that the other major party will attempt to hijack this November 3 election. President Donald Trump has said he is convinced that mail-in ballots are a scam except in Florida, where it’s safe to vote by mail because of its “great...
September 24, 2020Dear editor; When I watched the candidates for Kane County Board chair speak at the recent election forum, I felt as if they were engaging in two different conversations. Corinne Pierog was talking about unmet needs, policy ideas, and making the budget serve the needs of the people....
August 22, 2020Dear editor; The Farm System Reform Act, a bill championed by Cory Booker, which would ban factory farms, should include funding for cultured-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering animals. This technology would ameliorate many problems the Farm System Reform...
Grandpa says: In cooperation with local and State law enforcement, Grandpa is publishing this special notice to those on parole or probation, albeit anyone easily might become a victim to this type of scam. If you or your loved ones receive a phone call from anyone indicating that you have...
By John W. Whitehead The U.S. Supreme Court will not save us. It doesn’t matter which party gets to pick the replacement to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The battle that is gearing up right now is yet more distraction and spin to keep...
Friday, Sept. 11Dear editor; As a mother of three children and an elementary school teacher, I often had children bring me stories that my immediate response was “Who told you that?” It was often followed by a lot of whataboutisms. “What about Billy, he was in the fight also….” “No...
September 10,Dear editor; I am writing in response to my survey that arrived in the mail recently. Stop this mud-slinging. After the election is over, you should not campaign for the next election. Your job is to run the government. You should do what they do in Canada and have...
By Judy Siedlecki I felt sick when the Nortorious RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court justice) died at the age of 87 Friday evening, because I felt she was the last guardrail against the destruction of our democracy. Now, I remind myself, God doesn’t make mistakes. I can relate...
Grandpa,Things that people have done during the pandemic shut down? Well, when my job shut down, we all got a letter from the boss that said, “Our business is not on the government’s list of essential businesses. You are not defined by your work. You are essential! Please, take this...
By John W. Whitehead Over the course of the past 30 years, the need to keep the schools safe from drugs and weapons has become a thinly disguised, profit-driven campaign to transform them into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug-sniffing dogs,...
September 6, 2020Dear editor; I am so sick of these protesters who smash and grab and loot. I am sick of television stations that are not telling the whole story…. They just keep saying the same thing, newscast after newscast. I’m sick of the anal retentives who see the police...
Grandpa says:Happy Birthday to my younger brother. I have the upper hand this time because you don’t even know I write this column! But I know that you are 64 years old today and still a full year away from joining me in blissful retirement. Love you, little brother! Grandpa,You...
September 3, 2020Dear editor; The sympathetic media coverage of Stephanie Kifowit’s so-called courage in “demanding” fellow Democrat speaker Mike Madigan’s resignation borders on the bizarre. Before we salute the brave and selfless Aurora State representative for standing up to the House speaker, perhaps her constituents and newspaper reporters should examine...
Grandpa,Last week would have been my 45th wedding anniversary if my wife were still alive. She passed away nearly three years ago. On the date of our anniversary I got a card in the mail addressed to her. It was “signed” by (her brother) who was killed in the same...
By John W. Whitehead “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.” —Anonymous Have you noticed that the government’s answer to every problem is more government, at taxpayer expense, and less individual liberty? The Great Depression....
August 25, 2020Dear editor; It is the death of common sense: I understand much clearer now the reasons for Christ’s crucifixion: The mob would not defer to truth. Jesus Christ had to go, according to the mob. A virus is not a new invention. Check it out. It was and...
Grandpa,Just so you know, I agree with the priest! (See The Voice, June 11, 2020). That man should kick out the queers who kissed each other. Queers should not be allowed to stay in a house where a man brings kids. Stop calling them “gays”, God calls them abominations. Grandpa...
August 22, 2020Dear editor; This letter serves as a heads-up to all property taxpayers in Aurora (Township). I learned with some difficulty, this year is different because the assessments were not all published. Only the re-valued parcels were published in the August 10 Beacon News. To make it even more...
