Category: Political

Reader’s Voice: Whiteheads’ silence thunderous

Sunday, July 30Dear editor; This concerns recent commentaries by John and Nisha Whitehead in The Voice. The Whiteheads warn us in the first paragraph of the June 22, 2023, issue of The Voice, that Donald Trump’s indictment accusing him of mishandling and hiding classified documents and obstruction of justice is

Reader’s Voice: Thought: Republicans must mail in votes

June 11, 2023Dear editor; To wrap up the week, please check out my colleagues’ new pieces on Voter ID (Noel Wilkins) and the main subject of this post, mail-in voting (John Pudner’s latest piece in NewsMax, which has overtaken CNN in viewership many time slots). In May 2020, Pudner sounded

America’s youngest Black mayor, Jaylen Smith (l), 19, of Earle, Arkansas, met last month with mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin, during the African American Mayor’s Association National Conference in Washington D.C. Smith will be Aurora’s guest speaker for the annual Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony on Monday, January 19 – the 158th anniversary of Juneteenth.

Youngest Black mayor in America to visit Aurora on Juneteenth

More than a century and a half ago, the last enslaved Black people received the news that they were indeed free.  Now, 158 years later, the youngest Black mayor in American history will join the first Black mayor of Aurora, Illinois, to honor the Juneteenth holiday. Mayor Jaylen Smith, 19,

On the witness stand, ex-legislator finally acknowledges he wore wire for FBI

By Hannah MeiselCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com Former State senator Terry Link, a nearly 24-year veteran of the Illinois Capitol, publicly acknowledged for the first time this week that he’d worn a wire to secretly record a fellow lawmaker in 2019. Link, a Vernon Hills Democrat, has spent years denying news media

Speaker Pro Tempore Jehan Gordon-Booth, D-Peoria, presents a budget bill on the House floor early Saturday morning before lawmakers adjourned for the summer around 3 a.m..
Speaker Pro Tempore Jehan Gordon-Booth, D-Peoria, presents a budget bill on the House floor early Saturday morning before lawmakers adjourned for the summer around 3 a.m.. Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams

Budget vote brings Illinois General Assembly’s 2023 spring session to a close

House gives final OK to $50.6 billion spending plan  By Peter Hancock  Capitol News Illinois The 2023 spring legislative session came to an end in the early hours of Saturday morning after the Illinois House gave its approval to a $50.6 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year that

Reader’s Voice: Situation at Mexican border alarming

May 15, 2023Dear editor; Can the incompetence of the Joe Biden administration be any clearer than the alarming humanitarian situation we have on the Mexico border? Estimates show thousands of immigrants are coming across the border every day. The current situation is out of control and dangerous. A robust, well-regulated

Reader’s Commentary: On ‘Coddington’s Logorrhea’, Joe Biden, Democrats

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Charles Coddington engaged in a bit of his own Logorrhea in the April 6 issue of The Voice after accusing Republicans of what he is guilty of doing…which is in a word… “logorrhea.” He prattled on about things he disagreed with, giving us his opinions on

Reader’s Commentary: Points made: Protecting children, 1619 Project problems

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Conservative actions concerning transsexuals and transexuality have to do with protecting these children, especially younger children and children up to and beyond puberty, from being groomed in ways that would lead them to becoming even more confused about their gender dysphoria. Impressionable and psychologically-confused children, with

Reader’s Voice: A sense of outrage on Mr. Trump

April 10, 2023Dear editor; G.O.P. stalwarts made headlines crying, “Unfair treatment under the law!” in response to southern Manhattan’s D.A. Bragg’s announcement to indict the G.O.P.’s puppet-master. Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp fired a well-aimed fusillade at Fox Network’s chief propagandists, Carlson, Hannity, et.al. blasting their supposed outrage: “They weren’t outraged

Politics necessary function of life to be respected

Politics is a necessary function of life. Messy, controversial, disputes arise, differences of opinions offer singed relationships. Nonetheless, politics exists. It remains a better method of settling differences, conducting government business, finding peace, than hostilities. Politics is everything from contests at the ballot box which we have undergone this week

Reader’s Commentary: Frothing at the mouth again: Trump derangement crowd

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Donald Trump derangement crowd is frothing at the mouth again. “Wayne’s world Johnson” has spittle on his nose! Johnson and the Left don’t bother looking at the millions Biden has gotten from China or at Hunter’s criminality or Biden family corruption. The FBI still guards

Political forum: Geneva Park District Board, Geneva School District 304 Board, Geneva City Council representing Ward 4

The League of Women Voters of Central Kane County will be host to a hybrid forum Thursday, Feb. 16 featuring candidates running in the April 4, Consolidated Election for seats on the Geneva Park District Board, the Geneva School District 304 Board, and for a seat on the Geneva City

Supermajority group seeks mobilization of women in politics

Reprinted from The Voice, May 9, 2019 Cecile Richards, a recent guest on the MSNBC Morning Joe television program, announced that she and co-sponsor Alicia Garza have formed a new organization entitled: “Supermajority.” The following article was written by Chantal da Silva for Newsweek. “Three prominent activists have launched an