By Dr. Glenn Mollette Thanksgiving Day seems to be overshadowed by Halloween and Christmas. Therefore, start focusing on Thanksgiving today. Let’s make the rest of November Thanksgiving month, at least until Thanksgiving Day. Today let’s celebrate. The November election is set to be over, we hope. My prayer is that
October 27, 2026Dear editor; I’m writing to ask my neighbors to join me in supporting the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), a bill that proposes to make our energy permitting process faster and more effective. The bill has support from both parties and aims to lower electricity costs
By John & Nisha Whitehead This time of year, there is no shortage of monsters to frighten us. Hollywood has given us vampires, zombies, mad scientists, masked killers, and creatures that emerge from the darkness to prey upon the unsuspecting. But perhaps the most frightening monster of all is the
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Halloween and the election are really close. People will hardly have time to take off their scary costumes before entering the voting booths. It is unclear as to what will be the most frightening, the scary costumes or the candidates. The outcome of the election will
October 19, 2026Dear editor; We must put an end to the childish campaign tactics we see far too often in our elections. Negative campaigning may be an effective way to win elections, but does it help elect the best, most qualified candidates? Or are we simply giving in to negativity,
By Heidi Kolbeck-Urlacher, policy director, Center for Rural Affairs For weeks, candidate ads have dominated television viewing. Text messages and phone calls are nonstop. Yard signs are popping up like my late season tomatoes. Much of this messaging is for candidates who will serve in Washington, D.C., or in the
Thank the Lord, Election Day is almost here and the unending stream of broadcast, snail mailed, emailed and texted versions of I’m-the-best-candidate-for-anything-and-everything-in-your-insignificant-lives political messages will be finished; for about a week, anyway, until the new stream of aforementioned begins for the next elections a year or two away. Think about
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Our soldiers fight Islam and Communism around the world, then Charles Coddington, contributor to The Voice, types vote those we’re fighting into office in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, California…. It makes no sense, unless you consider Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) fanatics
By John & Nisha Whitehead There was a time when thinking for yourself was considered a virtue. These days, it can make you a political outcast. Question the Democrats, and you’re accused of being a Republican. Question the Republicans, and you’re branded a Democrat. Criticize Donald Trump, and you’re dismissed
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Silence may or may not be golden. You may be hungry for a little bit of silence or terrified of the quiet. Silence can be deafening, but it all depends on the circumstances. Often the noise of the world and all that is going on can
October 3, 2026Dear editor; Voters of the City of Aurora, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties, Illinois: Please vote “Yes” on the Aurora Mayoral Recall Referendum Tuesday, Nov. 3. Aurora Voters will get to exercise an inalienable right that is a part of our heritage as Americans, to equip ourselves
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 22). He has placed his signature on the $100 bill “in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America”; Pardoned six persons who tampered with air pollution equipment in their automobiles in violation of the Clean Air Act; Brought
By John & Nisha Whitehead The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. Aggressive ICE raids. Government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents. Public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests. Government leaders who glorify violence, spew
By Dr. Glenn Mollette What keeps you living? Do you enjoy life? Are you happy for the opportunity to be in the world, breathe the air, see the beauty of God’s creation? Do you enjoy family, friends and daily life? What is your reason for living? None of us chose
Did you ever want to be famous? I mean the instantly recognizable Elvis Presley or Howdy Doody type of fame where people keep you in their memory ad infinitum (“He’s not really dead” and “He’s not really a puppet”). I did at one time, but eventually figured it was better
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda All my life I’ve told people of the hell communism is. I’ve even written a book about it entitled “From Tyranny to Liberty.” I’ve exchanged books with Cubans and Eastern Europeans who have experienced what I’ve experienced. We all tell similar stories. There is a common
By John & Nisha Whitehead The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you a lie. Case in point: Donald Trump promised to shrink the federal government. But what if Trump’s pledge to cut the federal work force wasn’t really about eliminating government bureaucracy
By Dr. Glenn Mollette A few years back my wife’s parents passed and the time came to sell their house. The house was nice and had nice furniture. When the house sold a lot of their belongings ended up on the street for anyone to carry off. Even though there
September 20, 2026Dear editor; An interesting meeting was held September 14 at Santori Library in Aurora. A write-up covering the meeting was in the September 17 Beacon-News about the meeting on data centers. It interested me to observe all the open-ended and uncertain, not to mention confusing, issues surrounding data
By John & Nisha Whitehead America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just about illegal immigration. If you fell for that, chances are you’re still falling for the government’s oldest trick: Manufacture a crisis, identify an enemy, frighten the public, declare an emergency,
