Category: Opinion

March 4, 2019 Dear editor; The pursuit of city government, tax-funded branches, police department, police association, public library, park district, Waubonsee College, for their sins of omission: For my money and votes, these boards are expected to vote, especially on matters involving private divisive groups. Friday, my response from the...

February 25, 2019 Dear editor; I am not a fan of Donald Trump or the proposed U.S./Mexico border wall, but the Trump wall could be built by immigrants south of the border who want to come to the United States to work and live. We could pay able-body participants an...

February 16, 2019 Dear editor; So puppet governor JB Pritzker and his puppeteer, Mike Madigan, want to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Madigan said through his puppet that this administration wants to balance the State’s budget, but not on the backs of the working class citizen. How...

February 15, 2019 Dear editor; February 11 Kendall County voted no limits on non-commercial shooting near our homes. Anyone can shoot any weapon, at any time, any where, in any manner in unincorporated Kendall County, even in subdivisions full of homes. Not even a berm is required! Good luck if...

February 8, 2019 Dear editor; It appears that the proposed minimum wage increase for the State is rapidly going to be a reality. As an industry we are not opposed to an increase, but we have tremendous concerns about the speed and lack of analysis on the true impact this...

February 12, 2019 Dear editor; I have a question for you, Aurora, and the country! Who decides who is valuable? I hear thoughts about rating individuals by merit. Who decides the standard? Who decides what culture is the best: White, African American, Mexican, Indian, Native American, Chinese? Some with white...

January 29, 2019 Dear editor; Just so you can hear for yourselves what a hypocritical, two-faced piece of barnyard waste Chuck Schumer is: Look up his speech regarding illegal immigration nine years ago at Georgetown Law School. He gives seven principles. He thinks that anyone who enters the United States...

February 2, 2019 Dear editor; Virginia lawmakers recently rejected a bill that would have made it permissible to terminate a pregnancy throughout all three trimesters, just like the egregious bill New York recently legalized. While thrilled that Virginia lawmakers had the commonsense to vote this murderous legislation down, and we...

January 22, 2018 Dear editor; “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” —Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, 1939. On the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order expanding abortion in Illinois. With all...

January 27, 2019 Dear editor; In this bitter cold snap, I have a bit of advice to make starting your car a bit safer. Before getting into the car, bang on the hood a couple of times. Small animals hide under the car hoods to keep out of the wind....