By Bela “Bill” Suhayda President Joe Biden needs to take a cognitive test, and if special prosecutor Hur is proven correct, Biden needs to be removed from office under the 25th amendment. If test results prove Biden is not impaired, he should stand trial for illegally- possessing documents he had...
May 29, 2023Dear editor; This opinion piece is in response to Mr. Suhayda’s commentary in The Voice April 27 edition. Rather than wade through the fiction and gross exaggerations Mr. Suhayda tirelessly expounds, some of which have been efficiently and at times humorously dealt with in The Voice, I will,...
Judge Martha Pacold issued an order recently that specifically noted the City of Aurora “sincerely and credibly holds no hostility toward Aurora Pride.” Judge Pacold found limited issues with the City’s Special Events Ordinance and issued a preliminary injunction. Well before the recent order, the City government has been actively...
By State rep. Dagmara Avelar and State rep. Ryan Spain All around Illinois, the signs of change are apparent. The COVID-19 pandemic changed our economy, how we live and work, and how working-class and lower-income families struggle day to day. We come together to argue for a solution to one...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. This essay is a focus on conspiracy theories. The latest is wondering how media could anticipate the March 10 failure of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The details of the collapse were in the Nation/World section of The Sun-Times, Sunday March 12 by the Associated Press....
March 6, 2020Dear editor; Five smiling faces enjoying their put down of Christopher Columbus were in A Voice for your opinions, thevoice.us/a-voice-for-your-opinions-what-are-your-thoughts-on-chicago-public-schools-changing-columbus-day-to-indigenous-peoples-day. I asked myself, have any of them read a biography of his life? Many books are available expressing various points of view contrary to the public schools’ rendition...
February 21, 2020Dear editor; As usual Marjorie Logman chooses a unique item to discuss in her commentary “A piece of the shattered vase should return to the rest” about the results of a broken vase…division” in The Voice. First tell me, who broke the vase? I believe it was the...
January 18, 2020Dear editor; This letter is in response to the letter of Joan Solms, Aurora, which was published in the January 16, 2020 Reader’s Voice column of The Voice, and can be viewed at thevoice.us/remarks-follow-resignation-from-lwv. The undersigned leaders of the League of Women Voters in the area welcome the...
By Mavis Bates I recently presented a workshop at a youth conference on the climate crisis. One of the handmade posters in the hallway read, “My therapist told me to speak my truth: I’m scared.” Yes, our young people are scared about the future and they want us grown-ups to...
