Category: Political

Reader’s Voice: Needed: Guts, brains, to change

July 22, 2022Dear editor; Imagine a tax that confiscates one-half of the purchasing power of your entire life savings in less than eight short years! That’s what the current 9.1% inflation rate is doing to you and your family’s financial security. It cuts the purchasing power of your current wages

Reader’s Commentary: Initially resisting response, file essentially important

By Vince Smith,Big Rock, Ill. Although occasionally offering my own personal thoughts and perspectives to this publication and its readers, I generally try to avoid attacking other contributors who of course have their own views which sometimes differ markedly from my own. Even recently, with great effort I resisted the

Political pressure on the poor must stop in true democracy

A growing segment of the population views primarily everything the Nation’s founders said with a healthy dose of skepticism. For various reasons, the distrust associated with the establishing principles of American democracy has legitimacy. As the 2022 campaign season turns toward the general election, it’s hard watching as the plight

Reader’s Voice: A response here to political attacks

April 30, 2022Dear editor; “Conservatives Under Attack” claim they are victims of relentless attacks by social media, fake news media, federal agencies and the Democratic Party. Their remedies: Shrink the federal government. I learned in school that lack of government is chaos; secure the border with Mexico: Build the wall

Reader’s Commentary: Being ‘woke’ seen as dangerous

By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. What would you think if you asked a person what the weather was going to be tomorrow who answered, “I don’t know, I’m not a meteorologist? You probably would think they were joking…right? There was a question asked of candidate for U.S. Supreme Court

Reader’s Voice: Public safety remains essential

March 8, 2022Dear editor; A year ago January, governor JB Pritzker signed the SAFE-T Act into law. The Safety Accountability, Fairness & Equity Today Act was quickly drafted and un-vetted. Ultimately, it has not demonstrated its purported outcomes of making Illinois neighborhoods safer. This legislation was sent to the Governor’s

Ex-Speaker Michael Madigan indicted on 22 public corruption counts

By JERRY NOWICKIPETER HANCOCKBETH HUNDSDORFER& GRACE KINNICUTTCapitol News Illinoisnews@capitolnewsillinois.com Longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on 22 counts for allegedly using his position as the top House Democrat to solicit “personal financial rewards” for himself and his associates, according to the U.S.