Tag: Vince Smith

Reader’s Commentary: Response to Vince Smith letter in The Voice: Missing

By Bill “Bela” Suhayda In response to Vince Smith’s letter in The Voice December 22, 2022, Focus: True science, research. As director of NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6.1 Billion in annual taxpayer funding for scientific research, allowing him to control the subject, content, and outcome of scientific exploration across...

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Reader’s Voice: Focus: True science, research

December 6, 2022Dear editor; I now read that Charles Coddington is dreaming of publishing his own newspaper. As fulfilling for him as that might be, I can only hope that his newspaper will be more enlightening than his recent contributions to The Voice have been. With his usual lack of...

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Reader’s Voice: Correction on Great Lakes count

October 21, 2022Dear editor; In addition to my enjoying the spirited political bantering that often goes on in this fine publication, I appreciate the opportunity to test my recall of a few facts in each week’s Trivia Test. I take pride in being usually able to come up with at...

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Reader’s Voice: Response: MAGA world danger

September 26, 2022Dear editor; According to her recent contribution to The Voice, Becky Nelson felt compelled to respond to president Joe Biden after a speech in which he identified MAGA Republicans as a dangerous threat to our democracy (Reader’s Voice, September 22). After reading and attempting to digest Becky’s contribution,...

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Reader’s Voice: Donald Trump’s past more evident

Thursday, Sept. 22Dear editor; Well, now we know a few of the details that were behind Donald Trump’s refusal to release his income tax information to the American public during his presidential campaign and the four years that followed. Letitia James, New York attorney general, brought to our attention how...

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

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: Initially resisting response, file essentially important

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 Voice: Mass shootings: Clear indications

July 6, 2022Dear editor; Ho hum, another mass shooting, only this time a little closer to home. The weapon used? Yup, you guessed it… an assault-style rifle, capable of belching out 30 rounds of human-obliterating ammo per clip. The shooter in Highland Park, Ill.? A young, white, male who legally...

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Reader’s Voice: Probe purpose: Provide cushion

June 13, 2022Dear editor; Some among us may ask questions of the purpose, or, the value of the public hearings being presented by the January 6 (2021) Committee of the House of Representatives. Most of us who have been paying attention to the various political maneuverings which have taken place...

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Reader’s Voice: On a previous letter on guns

May 26, 2022Dear editor; The writing and publication dates of Phil Wood’s recent commentary in The Voice on The answer: Intact mother/father, May 19, 2022) on our Nation’s gun laws preceded the sad incident in Uvalde, Texas, but it is nonetheless unfortunate that many of us now find it difficult...

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Reader’s Voice: Special book requires scrutiny

Monday, Feb. 28Dear editor; It seems that everyone who is anyone is peddling a book these days, including some of the more regular contributors to this publication. When I happened upon several dusty unbound copies of my PhD thesis during a recent pandemic-induced decluttering effort, the thought occurred to me...

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

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 Voice: Reflection, rebuttal, of previous letters

August 15, 2021Dear editor; After reading the challenge to a previous week’s contributor by Joan Solms in the August 12 issue of The Voice (thevoice.us/readers-voice-a-challenge-to-writer-to-meet), I was prompted to retrieve my copy of the August 5 issue in an effort to identify and understand what sort of reprehensible contribution I...

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Reader’s Voice: Science: Vaccines best weapons

August 6, 2021Dear editor; Although now retired from a successful career in scientific research, I remain a scientist. I believe in science and all those who have contributed their scientific expertise in an effort to address and eliminate this COVID-19 pandemic which is upon us. Based upon the conclusions and...

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Reader’s Voice: Disappointment in disturbing hate speech

July 1 2021Dear editor; Having read a variety of opinions on a variety of topics contributed by other subscribers to The Voice over a number of years, I was recently disappointed to find within the pages of this otherwise reputable publication what I consider to be a disturbing example of...

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