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Reader’s Commentary: Community news reports help democracy

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By State senator Steve Stadelman Democracy dies in darkness. Those words underscore the masthead of The Washington Post every day. Sadly, the light journalism brings to many communities in Illinois and across the country is dimming. In the past 15 years or so, more than 2,000 newspapers around the country...

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Reader’s Commentary: Free speech must remain our aim

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda, Sugar Grove, Ill. The death of free speech! It didn’t concern me much when efforts, even five years ago, tried to silence free expression. I assumed as Americans, we would protect this very important cornerstone to our now lost democracy. I used to believe we had...

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Reader’s Voice: In defense of a woman’s reproductive rights

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By Mary Ann Curtis,Naperville, Ill. Texas governor Greg Abbott and his bounty-hunting bully buddies are on the prowl for women, their abortion-providers and anyone who aids them. Under protection of the Texas abortion ban, State Senate Bill 8, they ran to the U.S. Supreme Court for cover and assistance. How...

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Reader’s Commentary: Vaccine skepticism not to be scorned

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By Bela “Bill’ SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. I’m beginning to realize who among us would have hidden Anne Frank and who would have turned her in to the Nazis. Mandates carry more weight these days than laws or constitutional rights. How close are we to putting bounties on the heads of...

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Reader’s Commentary: In defense of an opinion, stance

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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...

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Reader’s Commentary: Facts essential to discussion

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By Marjorie LogmanAurora, Ill. Being a contributor to the opinion section of The Voice, and an avid reader, I felt compelled to write. So many individuals, even The Voice opinion writers, have been deceived and are following untruth conspiracies and fear-mongering of the other. There is always of nugget of...

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Reader’s Commentary: All children should have life

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. The largest genocide didn’t happen in Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia, or Mao’s China. It occurs every day in the uteri of women in today’s world. We, in the U.S., destroy close to a million lives every year without a breath or a whimper. Out...

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Reader’s Commentary: Non-sense commentaries must cease!

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By Vince SmithBig Rock I don’t really recall how I first became aware of this publication, but my first impression of The Voice was adequately positive for me to become a subscriber. I still feel that it has the best sports coverage of any of the locally-published news media, but...

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Reader’s Commentary: Rally for reproductive rights in Naperville

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By Naperville Radical Women Community activists urge the public to make your voice heard in support of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 3, on Naperville’s Riverwalk, Free Speech Pavilion. Laura Welch, president of Illinois NOW (National Organization of Women), underscores that, “Illinois is one...

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Reader’s Commentary: Gullibility remains a human frailty

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. Notably: “97.5% of scientists agree with whoever is funding them,’’ wrote Susan Capitano-Hooker. And so it goes in the marriage between science and government these days. Politicians on the left don’t miss opportunities, blaming human generated CO2 for every weather related catastrophe. We’re supposed...

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Reader’s Commentary: Questions on bad hospital food

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By Evelyn EsslingAurora, Ill. AMITA Health Mercy Medical Center must have the largest amount of waste food in their garbage collection bins. Unfortunately, my husband had to be a guest in that place more times than we care to remember.. Starting in June 2019 he was in for, what the...

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Reader’s Commentary: Do not change your mind: Bad eating habits leads to Dementia

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By M Grace GrzanekBatavia, Ill. Many may attribute it to old age, such as, he’s getting old and forgetful and must have dementia! No so. Dementia is not a disease of old age, rather a disease resulting from a lifetime of poor food choices. It drastically changes your mind. Dementia...

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Reader’s Commentary: Anti-COVID vaccine clarity

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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...

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Reader’s Commentary: Thoughts on need to wear masks

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove After my first microbiology class in college, I realized there were at least a thousand ways I would come into contact with microbes on a daily basis. There is an inevitability to living with germs. They are all around us, on us, and inside of...

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Reader’s Commentary: U.S. government proven not to be trusted: A response

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda In response to Wayne E. Johnson, July 22 in The Voice, thevoice.us/the-big-time-vaccination-received-instead-of-refused, the big time: Vaccine received, instead of refused: Americans have felt free to decide what they should or should not put into their bodies, until very recent history. We’ve assumed government respected our autonomy...

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Reader’s Commentary: Response to Ask Grandpa item on State jury duty

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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...

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Reader’s Commentary: Rachel Ventura deserves our support in Illinois State Senate, 43rd District

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By John LaeschAurora We need Rachel Ventura’s voice in our political system. It is rare to find hard-working, trusted elected officials who are willing to go to the mat for working families and those who do not have a voice in our political system. As long as I have known...

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Reader’s Commentary: Censorship, misinformation, dangerous to the country

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove I’m almost sure most of you remember March 2020. Closing down a country tends to create an indelible memory of dates and events. During that month, executives of Silicon Valley met with officials in Washington, D.C. to determine how much Americans would be allowed to...

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Reader’s Commentary: On controlling thoughts, ideas, conversations, in the U.S.

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By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove Totalitarianism, communism, and other assorted dictatorial isms have a set of guideposts by which they maintain control over their populations. In their efforts to create their perfect world, which they want the rest of us to enjoy, they build a controlling framework into which we...

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Reader’s Commentary: Response to spiritual danger

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By Matt KruszewskiAurora In the June 24 issue of The Voice (thevoice.us/another-christian-church-chapter-evolves-on-its-role), Deena Sherman asks questions of the Roman Catholic Church in holding sacraments hostage when the sacraments are sought by those judged to have committed certain specific sins. However, it is not the role of priests and bishops to...

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