Letters to the Editor | Thursday, May 31,2012

Letters to the Editor 5/31/12

Taxes and gambling

TAX GAMBLING, NOT PEOPLEThe Illinois budget would probably be balanced today, except for the $37.5 billion to $46 billion given away to Illinois gambling interests over the last two decades. Faced in

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, May 24,2012

Letters to the Editor 05/24/12

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ROBBING STATE WORKERSI am a normal Illinois state government worker. I didn’t get my job because I knew someone. I got my job because I took a test, got an A, went to an interview and the person

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, May 17,2012

Letters to the Editor 05/17/12

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RETIREMENT SOLUTIONI think I may have come up with the solution for current and future state retirees and our concerns about health insurance and retirement. I think we should just operate under the s

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, May 10,2012

Letters to the Editor 5/10/12

City infrastructure and SURS

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NO POT OF GOLDI read with interest the article on the city infrastructure written by Bruce Rushton [see “Plan? What plan? Still no fix for city infrastructure,” May 3]. The city inherited

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, May 3,2012

Letters to the Editor 5/3/12

Pension reform, political funding and and parking

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PENSION RIGHTSI’m all for paying my fair share. However, proposed Illinois state pension reform goes beyond fair share into highway robbery. The current $32,000/year average (also the U.S. avera

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, April 26,2012

Letters to the Editor 04/26/2012

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WOMEN AGAINST REGISTRYJerry Sandusky is at the center of the Penn State sex abuse scandal. Jerry Sandusky was not on any sex offender registry, which is the case in more than 95 percent of sexual offe

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, April 19,2012

Letters to the Editor 4/19/12

Chicken, the Postal Service and parking lots

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CHICK FIGHTMaybe if Chic-fil-A moves to Springfield we should all move out. [See “What would Col. Sanders do? Chick-fil-A generates controversy at UIS,” by Bruce Rushton, posted April 11.]

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, April 12,2012

Letters to the Editor 04/12/12

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COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER“Faith, hope and statuary” [by James Krohe Jr., April 5] was an overly tilted and in my case insulting piece of “work.” I admit that I have not perso

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, April 5,2012

Letters to the Editor 4/5/12

Chris Britt, Truancy and Coroner candidates

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NOT A BRITT FANJust recently I started to again read your weekly newspaper, which I have never been a fan of, and then here you go again, you hire another SJ-R reject, Chris Britt. Then Britt starts p

Letters to the Editor | Thursday, March 29,2012

Letter to the Editor 03/29/12

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OAK RIDGE FINANCESFor this reason alone, there should not be differing laws governing municipal, religious and privately held cemeteries. [ See “Buried: Oak Ridge Cemetery has serious financial