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Opinion

Reader’s Commentary: Democrats against audit, DOGE to root out wasteful spending

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Democrats, along with Chuck “Chucky Cheese” Schumer, “Wayne’s World” Johnson and Charles “The Sponge” Coddington, yell from the rooftops DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) should stop investigations into how our hard earned tax dollars are spent. They don’t want the IRS, Treasury, or Pentagon audited...

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Government Money Opinion

Reader’s Voice: ‘April Fools Day’ Tax Referendum

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February 7, 2025Dear editor; Taxpayers are the government’s “bankers of last resort”. When politicians over-spend and over-tax in fiscally irresponsible ways, it’s ultimately up to us taxpayers to say “no more”. According to its audited financial statements filed with the Illinois State Comptroller, the Kane County Board’s Ruling Democrat Super-Majority...

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Environment Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Bird Flu terrible, as is factory farming

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February 6, 2025Dear editor; The sight of ducks, crows, and other birds dying along Lake Michigan’s shores due to bird flu is a grim reminder of how our food choices harm animals. On filthy factory farms, thousands of stressed chickens are crammed together, providing ideal breeding grounds for pathogens because...

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Author’s thoughts on Aurora Amtrak, RiverEdge Park

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By Ricky Rieckert Dear “The Voice” Readers: As we enter this week, I took our Aurora history tour bus in for a tire repair and decided to get an oil change, also. It should be ready to roll, next week. •Last week, I touched on building a new train depot...

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Government Opinion

Sleepwalking into tyranny: How power is silently being seized

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By John & Nisha Whitehead How something is done is just as important as why something is done. To suggest that the ends justify the means is to launch oneself down a moral, ethical and legal rabbit hole that leaves us in a totalitarian bind. We are already halfway down...

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Commentary Opinion Political

Reader’s Voice: League of Women Voters Aurora forums

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February 3, 2025Dear editor; As the Spring Election is in full swing, the League of Women Voters-Aurora Area is conducting forums for area candidates in the contested races for Mayor of Aurora and various offices in Kane and Kendall counties. Forums are designed to provide a safe space for candidates...

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Feature Opinion

I think I’ll stay in bed for the next four years

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Chaos reigns supreme once again as the newly elected buffoon-in-chief, Donald Trump, wields his permanent marker, jumping right into imposition of the actions outlined in Project 2025 for all Americans to enjoy. Each morning from now on when I wake up I’ll be wondering what the convicted felon and sexual...

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Opinion Political

Reader’s Commentary: Failed Democratic Party ploys; Trump to fix nation

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda How bad does your message have to be to lose an election to Adolph Hitler? I would surmise…pretty bad. Yet this is what happened to the Democrats, Kamala Harris and “Tampon” Tim Walz November 5, 2024. They were calling Donald Trump, Hitler for a decade. Did...

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Opinion

Rise of the immortal dictator: AI, freedom, and government

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By John & Nisha Whitehead “At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018) Get ready for Surveillance...

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Government Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Donald Trump and the rule of law

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January 27, 2025Dear editor; Concerning Donald Trump and the rule of law. Thoughts of an honest, compassionate, non-corrupt Executive Branch of the United States government proved delusional when we as the American electorate voted Trump, once again, as our president and supposed leader of the free world. For some Trump...

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Reader’s Voice: Presidential pardons, detrimental to law

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January 23, 2025Dear editor; Our most recent presidents, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, have collectively granted more than 11,700 pardons, with president Biden holding the record at more than 8,000 pardons. By granting a pardon voids not only the offence, but it can void the monetary damages owed...

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Feature Opinion

Inauguration Day, professor B.S., water in California

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Musings: •Inauguration Day has come and gone, and we have a dictator in the White House who threatened/promised he would be. Previously, following tradition, the U.S. flag had been lowered to half-mast in order to commemorate the passing of former president Jimmy Carter. The commemoration is observed for 30 days...

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Reader’s Commentary: Joe Biden’s felonious actions in office brought to light

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Republicans maintained a majority in the House of Representatives, and, with that victory, the House Oversight committee was able to uncover evidence revealing Joe Biden’s corruption in office. Yes, Joe Biden abused his office as vice president for personal reasons and his family’s financial gain....

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Government Opinion

Trump inauguration, start of an era of regression

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By the time you read this (you are reading this, aren’t you?) the Donald Trump presidential Inauguration, or as I prefer to call it the Prelude to Armageddon, is in the history books. The ceremony was moved inside so the incoming criminal-in-chief wouldn’t be embarrassed by a small crowd size...

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Feature Opinion

Chas and Trump agree on DST; Fox News fumbles

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Musings: •Would you believe, dear reader, that T. Rump and The Chas are on the same page on something? The “something” is Daylight Savings Time (DST). The man who would be king thinks that DST is “inconvenient,” while the man who is smarter than he is thinks it is ”unnecessary,”...

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Government International Opinion

Reader’s Voice: The U.S. funding of Gaza genocide

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January 6, 2025Dear editor; Silence is not golden. It has led to the massacre of tens of thousands in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Demands to increase humanitarian aid fail yet we keep supplying Israel with arms. The U.S. State Department has planned to sell $8 billion more weapons to...

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Government Opinion

The Deep State’s triumph: 2024 and the erosion of liberty

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By John & Nisha Whitehead We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults on our civil liberties. The...

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Entertainment Opinion

Reader’s Voice: You’ll want to see ‘Million Dollar Quartet’

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December 29, 2024Dear editor; One of the greatest unpaid jobs in Aurora is being an usher at the brand spanking new Stolp Island Theatre, and I can tell you, it’s an absolute privilege. From the moment you walk in, the attention to detail in the theatre draws you into the...

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Feature Opinion

Musings: T. Rump, B.S., being a vegetarian/vegan

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Musings: •Happy New Year, dear reader! It’s 2025 already. Where does the time go? I’m going to make two New Year’s resolutions which I haven’t done in a long, long time. First, I resolve not to be dismayed by the election of Donald Trump (T. Rump), but will double down...

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Environment Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Biden must shut down the Dakota Pipeline

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December 19, 2024Dear editor; With just one month left before Donald Trump returns to the White House, we are running out of time to lock in protections for our climate and communities. One critical action president Joe Biden can take right now is to permanently shut down the Dakota Access...

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