June 10, 2026Dear editor; As someone who works in healthcare and advocates for small businesses in Aurora, I think a lot about what it takes for families, workers, and local business owners to feel safe in their own community. Aurora is Illinois’ second-largest city. We are also a city that
If Bela “B.S.” Suhayda wants to call me a communist, I suppose that’s his prerogative. Personally, I prefer the term socialist; it’s more intellectual in meaning and is closer to what I philosophically believe. Be that as it may, I am curious about the expression “leftist communist”. Does that mean
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda We crossed over the Austrian/Hungarian border having successfully evaded Soviet border guards, snipers, and land mines a little more than a month before our arrival into New York harbor January 7, 1957. We traveled two weeks crossing over the small pond called the Atlantic, a body
By John & Nisha Whitehead “I love the inflation.”—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats
June 2, 2026Dear editor; Your “President paying loyalists; distractions” in the The Voice May 22 was a disgrace to this paper. This letter to the editor was filled with factual inaccuracies; clearly a fabrication by someone suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). I expect more of your paper, than to
By John & Nisha Whitehead “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.”—Donald Trump Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it. We are losing ground economically. We are losing
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 20).” He has: Signed an executive order declaring the production of glyphosate to be critical to national security and should be increased; Posted on his Truth Social website an image of himself as Jesus Christ; Planned to fire 9,400 TSA agents as
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Who is the Neville Chamberlain of “The Voice?” It’s Charles “The Chas” Coddington of course. He recently announced his opposition to all of America’s wars in the May 21 edition of The Voice. What a great pacifist he is for opposing every war the U.S. has
By John & Nisha Whitehead Who is actually running the government? That is no longer a rhetorical question. As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to renewed threats of military force, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing. But who?
By John & Nisha Whitehead One way or another, the American taxpayers always get screwed by politicians eager to spend our hard-earned dollars on programs and projects that do little to improve our lives, safeguard our freedoms, or secure our future. Donald Trump—the billionaire trust-fund baby/reality TV showman who transformed
By Dr. Glenn Mollette May is a busy month with Mother’s day, graduations, and Memorial day weekend activities. Hopefully these occasions have presented or are presenting you with opportunities to connect with friends and family. Too often, as we get older, our connection time with people is at the funeral
May 31, 2026Dear editor; I work closely with business owners and leaders in Black and Brown communities across Illinois. If the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act takes effect on July 1, it won’t hurt only small businesses. It will affect whole communities. This law would change how credit card payments work
From the vault (June 26, 2014, revised): It’s no secret that I’ve been opposed to every military adventure in which the United States has been engaged in, from Vietnam to Afghanistan – and now to Iran. If I had been politically aware in 1950, I would have been opposed to
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda There is a saying: “If you’re not a liberal at twenty…you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative by age thirty…you have no brain.” Was it Ernest Hemingway who authored this quip, or, was it Winston Churchill? No matter the author, it has always reminded
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Men and women who run for political offices must be men and women of the people and for the people. Political jobs are jobs for the people. A person who holds a political office must know that he or she is serving a massive number of
May 8, 2026Dear editor; I have been a long-term reader of the The Voice, and starting today, a first-time writer. I felt the urge to write after reading the Reader’s Commentary section: “Peace is possible, action was required by Trump in Iran,” in the April 23, 2026 issue of The
By John & Nisha Whitehead Call it what it is: A heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in particular—amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight. But here’s the trick: It’s a heist hidden behind spectacle. The Trump administration is
I hope all mothers out there had a very nice Mother’s Day. Also, that anyone who has, or had, an earthling mother made him or her feel special. I wrote “him” because in some species (such as clownfish or banana slugs) the father is also the mother, which may not
By Dr. Glenn Mollette We are bombarded daily with news, advertisements, telemarketers, text advertisements, and annoying phone calls. All of this is physically and emotionally draining. For the last 20 years I have listened to, watched and read the news. Sadly, most of the news is bad, negative and depressing.
Recently, Donald Trump, the man who would be king, floated a proposal which would increase the Pentagon’s budget by 50%. The Department of Defense’s slice of the overall budget is already the largest slice, and Congress does not seem to think that it is not enough and keeps on shoveling
