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Letters: Keep up good reporting
When I saw the first article about heroin I thought, “Nope, I’m not reading this.” You see, to the best of my knowledge, no one in my circle is or has ever been addicted. When I finished reading the paper that day, I folded up …
Letters: Ethnicity is irrelevant
I do not know what happened in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, and neither does anyone else, except George Zimmerman and witnesses, if any. What I do know is that almost all news outlets did not portray the incident accurately, but instead did all …
Letters: Eliminate tax loopholes
I know there are people who vote their party regardless of anything said. I have had a tendency to vote for politicians who lie to me the least. To determine this I need to know the facts. Recently, I have heard much talk about taxes …
Letters: Good deeds bring rewards
In Isaiah 52, verse 13, a prophecy is fulfilled, the suffering servant Jesus. Every year, I feel in my heart that I need a fresh dose of faith — to fill up my faith until next year and provide spiritual food for my soul. This …
Letters: Then there shall be peace
Because of someone’s precious child, I can look out my office window into a world of opportunity and freedom, given by those I will never know, who paid the ultimate price so that I might have the “gift” of choice, courtesy of all who have …
Letters: Cat should be ashamed
Caterpillar is making billions of dollars in profit. We, the members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, are on strike after being offered a contract with nothing but concessions. We are not asking for a lot, just a little part of …
Letter: Airport not wanted
As the vice president of STAND (Shut This Airport Nightmare Down), I personally know of the trials and tribulations the residents within the footprint of the proposed airport near Peotone have endured. As a Republican nominee for the Will County Board, I’ve spoken with many …
Letters: No free birth control
Fran Fallon (OpenLine, April 4) is correct. Any individual can choose between alternative possibilities based on their circumstances at any given time. Unfortunately, the world is in a social and moral quandary lacking ethics of responsibility due to that same free-will option. Access to birth …
Letters: Environment not in danger
It’s absurd comments, like those made by Sen. Dick Durbin, that make my family wish they could move out of Illinois. For Durbin to say we must buy hybrid cars (which are outrageously expensive, inadequate and faulty) to prevent tornadoes like those that hit Texas, …
Letters: Organ donors save lives
The Children’s Organ Transplant Association was founded more than 25 years ago when residents of Bloomington, Ind., rallied around a little boy who needed a lifesaving liver transplant. In less than eight weeks, the community raised $100,000 to place the boy on the organ waiting …
Letters: Thanks, neighbors
I’d like to say thank you to all my neighbors on Loral Avenue in Joliet. Since September 2010, I’ve been battling late-stage endometrial cancer. At times, my treatments have left me extremely ill. Neighbors have made food or given restaurant gift cards, shoveled my drive …
Letters: We must keep our freedom
Our constitutional right of religious freedom must remain unchallenged. President Barack Obama apparently believes he and Washington politicians and bureaucrats, by their supposed authority, can compromise, circumvent and force accommodation of our inalienable right (God-given) to freedom of religion, one of the major tenets of …
Letters: Tolls bankrupting families
After my husband came home from work one night, and told me that our $40 I-Pass charge hit the checking account again for the second time this month, I decided I would write this much-thought-about letter. We pay $80 a month in tolls for my …
Letters: Thanks for caring
I wish to thank my family for their help and caring, and my friends, who sent cards and comfort on the death of my husband, Ralph, on April 4. I would especially like to thank Carl Adams, for being a good friend. Also, I wish …
