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Reader’s Commentary: Misconceptions of SWAT team tactics: A rebuttal

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Misconception of SWAT team tactics: Here is a rebuttal to The Voice articles by columnist John Whitehead, April 28, 2022 and December 8, 2022. Mistakes in policing are never acceptable and SWAT is no exception. SWAT teams are sent to a location/target area when regular street cops can not resolve...

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Reader’s Commentary: Frothing at the mouth again: Trump derangement crowd

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Donald Trump derangement crowd is frothing at the mouth again. “Wayne’s world Johnson” has spittle on his nose! Johnson and the Left don’t bother looking at the millions Biden has gotten from China or at Hunter’s criminality or Biden family corruption. The FBI still guards...

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Reader’s Commentary: Fear an explanation for conspiracy theories

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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....

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Reader’s Commentary: Correction on virus confusion sets record straight

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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....

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Reader’s Commentary: Special salute for special 100-year-old Ray Moore

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By Karen Nielsen Lorence It was many years ago that we met Ray Moore working out at the Prisco Center. He was a regular and a charming one at that! The intriguing thing is that Ray had a history that included World War II and I couldn’t get enough of...

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Reader’s Commentary: Not a plaque, however, a place

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By Marjorie Logman I attended the MLK Awards event at East Aurora High School Monday, night, Jan. 16. When I was watching all who were there and listening to the speeches, my mind drifted to those who were not there and who may exemplify what Martin Luther King meant in...

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Reader’s Commentary: Voters may take disagreement road with Aurora Council

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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...

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Reader’s Commentary: U.S. Constitution should be followed, including in elections

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda “Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction, ” said Ronald Reagan in a speech on January 6, 1967. It seems to me that buffer generation is about to leave the station. But as that train leaves the station, we have a midterm election...

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Reader’s Commentary: Concern: Taxes for Casino move

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By John Laesch, Aurora, Ill. A growing coalition of concerned residents and community leaders will be speaking out against the Irvin-led initiative to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize the move of the Aurora downtown casino to the prime real estate at the interchange of I-88 and Farnsworth Avenue. Aurora Grassroots...

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Reader’s Commentary: On myths, falsehoods, and the leadership in the U.S.

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By Marjorie Logman, Aurora, Ill. I have been pondering for a while on how to comment on a variety of current topics, often seen in other commentaries in The Voice. This week I make those comments. I have decided to look at the comments of the gentleman who takes a...

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Reader’s Commentary: Climate change alarmists wrong?

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. “Ten years ago today Al Gore said the world would come to an end because of Climate Change.” The above headline of an article was written by Andre Walker and published January 27, 2016. To my knowledge, the world didn’t come to an end...

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Reader’s Commentary: Celebration of Deligiannis couple: 60 years Sept. 10

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By Penny Panayiota DeligiannisAurora, Ill. We received an amazing telephone call from City Hall in Aurora, Ill.. In the State of Illinois, Aurora is the second largest city (Population: 177,070) after Chicago. With a unanimous vote, Aurora mayor Richard C. Irvin and the Aurora City Council officially have approved to...

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Reader’s Commentary: ‘Facts stubborn, statistics pliable’

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By Vince Smith, Big Rock, Ill. As I read Leonard Wass’ August 4 letter to The Voice pertaining to gun control laws, it brought to mind a well-known quote attributed to Mark Twain: “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable”. Certainly Mr. Wass is entitled to his own political...

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Reader’s Commentary: Three commentaries: Responses

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Here are responses to Judy Siedlecki, Marjorie Logman, Wayne Johnson! Judy Siedlecki wrote, “In Uvalde (Texas), the myth that a good guy with a gun is all you need against a bad guy with a gun was demolished when 14 good guys in the school with...

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Reader’s Commentary: Initially resisting response, file essentially important

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By Vince Smith,Big Rock, Ill. Although occasionally offering my own personal thoughts and perspectives to this publication and its readers, I generally try to avoid attacking other contributors who of course have their own views which sometimes differ markedly from my own. Even recently, with great effort I resisted the...

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Reader’s Commentary: We must decide on values, what type of prosperity

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By Marjorie Logman,Aurora, Ill. I have been thinking about the state of affairs in the United States, especially considering elections are coming up. Experts say that many will vote according to the economy. I realize being a senior on a fixed income that it is an issue. Rent and food...

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Reader’s Commentary: Bumbling Joe Biden not helpful to the many U.S. positions

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The first thing president Joe Biden did taking office was to reduce our oil supplies by cutting the XL Keystone Pipeline and halting our drilling on federal land and shutting down our oil refineries. The president was following the advice of 16 year old Gretta Thunberg,...

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Reader’s Voice: Professional jurors to the rescue

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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...

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Reader’s Commentary: Strong voice: Opposed to plans at former Carson Pirie Scott

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By Donna Zine, Aurora, Ill. Ward resident I am opposed to any zoning and ordinance changes that would allow the current out-of-state owners of the former Carson Pirie Scot property, 970 N. Lake Street in Aurora, to install a passive income model storage unit at that site, or a car...

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Reader’s Commentary: Perspective on basic realities of electric-powered autos

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. Ever since the advent of the electric car, the real cost, per mile, of owning one rarely has been discussed. All we’ve heard is the miles per gallon in terms of the gasoline it would cost to run such a car with only a...

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