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. —- SULLIVAN IS SERIOUS Jesse Sullivan should be taken seriously as many Illinoisians are praying for a non-political hack to get our beautiful state back on track (“Jesse Sullivan is well-funded, but does he have […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- NOTHING NEW Sangamon County has long been in congressional, state Senate and state House districts that are so overwhelmingly Republican that Democrats rarely run, leaving the Republican unopposed (“Rigged elections?” Dec. 2). So excuse […]

PRESERVATIONISTS? Kenneth Lowe’s article brought out some opponents to the Double Black Diamond project who claim to be farmland preservationists (“County approves major solar power project,” Nov. 25). I see very few reports of preservationists testifying against real estate sprawl development of high-quality farmland on the outskirts of Springfield and other towns in Sangamon County. […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- A MONUMENTAL MISSION Karen Witter’s cover story truly captured the spirit and nature of what June and Edem Agamah are striving to deliver in Agbozume (“Changing lives in Ghana and Springfield,” Nov. 18). Thank […]

DON’T DISCRIMINATE Regarding the subminimum wage, my thoughts are if you pay a non-disabled person $15 an hour to sort hangers, you should pay the disabled person the same (“Working for less than minimum wage,” Nov. 11). How is it that in 2021, some of us are still fighting for equal pay for equal work? […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- COVID CASUALTY I enjoyed and passed on the Guestwork by Carly Hinkle (“A nurse’s plea: Help us fight this war,” Oct. 21). It was very relevant to our family. My sister-in-law got COVID last […]

THANK A NURSE This is a beautiful article (“A nurse’s please: Help us fight this war,” Oct. 21). Thanks to Carly Hinkle for sharing her story, and more importantly, thanks for all she has done to fight COVID. The body bag comments brought me to tears. I hope by baring her soul, she inspires more […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- KUDOS TO OFFICERS With all that is going on in this world, I felt moved to personally acknowledge the officer in this picture, along with a fellow officer who came to All In One […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- NO POLITICS? Years ago, the Springfield Tea Party was denied use of the historic Old State Capitol because political events were not permitted (“The Old State Capitol renovation,” Oct. 7). Obviously, Obama and Biden […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- UNIQUE STATIONS? Is there anything so unique about a fire station in Springfield, Illinois, that instead of paying $750,000 to have three new ones designed, the city could not easily copy architecture already designed […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- DIFFERENT RESULTS? The case against Hunter Lake is overwhelming, but why would the Army Corps of Engineers allow construction of another unmaintained lake to satisfy needs which do not exist (“The imaginary, languishing lake,” […]

STILL A READER Thanks for Scott Reeder’s piece on the State Journal-Register and how its functions have been scattered to the four winds as a sacrifice to the money gods (“State Journal-Register building up for auction,” Sept. 9). Although the SJ-R staff is stretched thin, it is still strong enough to produce some decent local […]