By Mary Goetsch,Aurora, Ill. Wayne Johnson’s comment on the IRS tax forms in the The Voice April 18 edition may come true: There are complicated tax laws that even their agents can’t figure out. It means the new 1040 Forms will be ambiguous and difficult. As just one example, we...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. Traffic and transportation are challenging even in the best of times. I do my utmost to seek alternate times and routes to avoid traffic. I looked into the problem of parking in the City lot on N. Broadway, which serves both BNSF (train) riders as well...
By Mary Goetsch When I received my July 20 copy of The Voice newspaper, I was perplexed by perhaps misquoted, or taken out of context, legal opinion on government records and who owns them in a commentary on page 6 by Bill Suhayda which stated that Judge Judy Berman Jackson...
By Mary Goetsch, Aurora, Ill. Tech industry leaders issued a one-sentence statement May 20 on artificial intelligence (AI) bringing a future risk of human extinction: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” It is good...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. Thursday, May 11 marks the federal end to pandemic restrictions and related funding programs. If school closures, public library closures, and restricted business were the precursor to online living, then after May 11, there should be no more of this situation. I see Fermilab (in Batavia)...
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....
By Mary Goetsch, Aurora, Ill. I wish to correct virus misinformation which arose from popular periodicals published in Winter 2020. I am not the only one who believed that SARS-Cov-2 is from retrovirus. To set the record straight, SARS-Cov-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is a single-strand, positive-sense RNA virus....
By Mary Goetsch, Aurora, Ill. We voters who take the difficult road of disagreeing with the Aurora City Council on the Casino plan to move, are in the good company of former State governor, Pat Quinn. He made the statement he decided not to run in the Chicago mayoral election...
By Mary Goetsch, Aurora, Ill. I am dismayed over the Aurora City Council’s vote to subsidize the Hollywood Casino move. I was there in spirit with the Aurora Grassroots Alliance, hoping that in addition to others opposed to the $50-to-$58 million bond issue through the Tax Increment Finance District (TIF),...
By Mary Goetsch, Aurora, Ill. Ask Grandpa column invited readers to submit opinions on the American Justice System in the June 30 edition. The jury system needs to be pared down in order to cope with court backlog and have a sustainable budget. Grandpa’s jailbird writer stated a one-person jury...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. This commentary is addressed to pharmacist Larry Frieders who writes a health column each month in The Voice. Your columns make more sense to me than most medical doctors, including the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Presentation), FDA (Food and Drug Administration, and even WHO...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. I finally found out what the official classification of the COVID-19 virus is! The exclamation point is included because of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses evidently was at the bottom of the Google browser priority. I found the answer (Type IV, SARS-1 and MERS)...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. In response to Vince Smith’s commentary in the September 30 Reader’s Commentary, with the headline, “Nonsense commentaries must cease,” I wish to give my credentials for rejecting COVID vaccination. I am an all-but-dissertation in biological sciences-nutrition from the University of Texas (UT-Austin). I was studying cell...
By Mary GoetschAurora, Ill. Here is my shortest version of my anti-COVID vaccine position. I believe the third of U.S. population which does not want the shots has a variety of reasons. My main reason is fear of unknown effects not only in the next couple months, but what could...
By Mary GoetschAurora As readers of Grandpa’s column know, emotions have been stirred about the subject of jury duty (thevoice.us/ask-grandpa-justice-system-valid-on-real-perseverance). The July 1 anonymous writer didn’t know the whole picture of a senior not willing to serve. Before judging my character negatively, I ask consideration for what the U.S. Constitution...
April 15, 2021Dear editor; I find it a fun hobby to watch those who proudly display their distorted thinking patterns. The latest example is the notion that jury duty is a personal inconvenience. Justice, fair and equal, is just not worth the bother? Some of the reasons Ms Goetsch gives...
By Mary GoetschAurora I was shocked and upset to receive a jury summons to appear for jury duty all the way to the 16th Circuit Judicial Center, west of Randall Road in St. Charles. I always have disqualified myself on the written questionnaires. My reasoning is that unwilling or unsuitable...
December 22, 2020Dear editor; Charles Coddington’s column in the December 17 issue of The Voice, “Birth, death, miracle of Jesus, some facts examined” (https://thevoice.us/birth-death-miracle-of-jesus-some-facts-examined) certainly made my week. I wish everyone Merry Christmas and happy holidays to expand with happy Solstice. The Chas nailed the idea that Jesus the Christ...
Here is a correction to this Reader’s Voice The Moderna final phase study came up with 196 cases (not the 19 listed incorrectly) of COVID-19. One individual among the 30 severe cases did die, which was listed. Mary Goetsch wrote in the addendum that she calculated the incidence rate of...
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...
