Letters to the Editor

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- INSPIRATIONAL This article is inspiring (“Repurposing MacMurray Hall, July 20). I love the idea of teaching people how to use the fruits and vegetables that they are given. I tried to implement a similar […]

MAYBE YOU’RE THE PROBLEM I can’t believe there’s a nationwide fuss over literally nothing happening (“Transgender turmoil,” July 27). A teenage girl saw someone she thought looked masculine in the locker room, but masculine-looking women exist, not including trans women – athletes with muscles, butch lesbians, women with androgynous buildings. People lashing out against trans […]

CALM DOWN Concerning the recent contretemps at the local YMCA: the Wheelers first need to calm down and stop exploiting this situation for the instant celebrity status it brings them (“Firestorm of fear,” July 20). I can imagine how shocking it was for Abbigail to see what seemed to be a man in a safe […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- A CRITIQUE OF THE CRITIQUE It is the job of a reviewer to “call ’em like they see ’em.” We cannot, however, let this article, which uses its brief eight paragraphs to seemingly accuse […]

THE CRIME OF EXISTING About one month on, Rev. Eric Hansen now says he was talking about the case of 16-year-old Abbigail Wheeler, who will be speaking at a press conference sponsored by the right-wing Illinois Freedom Caucus, and thus claims vindication (“Spreading fear about transgender people,” June 8). But when you read the complaint […]

NO AUTHORITY I just read the article about Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s defense of the Ugandan government’s position on homosexuality (“Bishop Paprocki defends Ugandan government,” June 22). This article comes on the heels of the Illinois Attorney General’s report on sexual abuse in the church.  I am a lifelong Catholic, but when it comes to moral […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- HELP HABITAT Thanks for the great article describing our local Habitat for Humanity chapter (“Habitat helps families, one homebuyer at a time,” June 8). Habitat for Humanity – Sangamon County was started at First […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- PAY-TO-PLAY PERSISTS After reading the article “Capital Area Realtors opposes registration for Landlords” (June 15), I came away frustrated, disgusted, disappointed and not at all surprised. It was a smoke-and-mirrors act for the Capital […]

THE REAL PREDATORS I think people are making a huge deal out of something that has so far remained a hypothetical (“Spreading fear about transgender people,” June 8). I wish people would get so passionate about removing people who actually abuse kids from positions of power, especially youth pastors, pastors and priests – patterns of […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. POLITICAL GAMES It’s incredibly disappointing that a political game is being played with our library (“Fired library managers speak out,” May 25). The morale there already seems low, and I can only imagine how damaging […]

IT FITS As the Division Chief of Operations for the Springfield Fire Department, I worked closely with the apparatus committee and oversaw the project to purchase new equipment, including the firetruck that is supposedly too tall to fit under the viaduct near the main fire station (“A controversial purchase,” May 18). There are always two […]

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS Was this article meant to be journalism or just act as a mouthpiece (“New mayor makes appointments,” May 11)? There are so many unanswered questions that myself, and I would hope other residents, would like answered. I was hoping Scott Reeder would ask some follow-up questions to Mayor Misty Buscher, but it seems […]