Letters to the Editor

NO MORE EXELON BAILOUTS Legislators should oppose Exelon’s current $700 million nuclear ransom demand. You can’t build an energy future by bailing out the past. Recent revelations that Exelon’s business partner, EDF, is curbing its enthusiasm for the creation of Exelon’s spin-off company should warn Illinois legislators about the danger of granting the recently proposed […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. —- A WELCOME VISIT Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend was an extraordinary day for me. I was visited by three very special Marine veterans who served with my son, Marine Lance Corporal Christian Porter, during […]

DON’T SPECULATE A recent article states, “Sangamon County coroner Jim Allmon said that he can surmise no way that Cody could have been tased on the back of his leg unless he was facedown prone” (“Jailers tased inmate at least five times, records show,” May 28). The coroner shouldn’t be surmising anything at this point. […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. —- FORGET APPEAL I went to the Lake Springfield beach frequently with my daughter (“City hit with six-figure verdict,” May 20). The lifeguards rarely paid any attention to the water. I was there the day […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. —- KNOW YOUR HISTORY The most frustrating and prohibitive factor in the unending battle for equality in our nation is the people who allow their thinking to flow as shallow as necessary to remain comfortable […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. —- HARMFUL TO BUSINESSES Springfield has pulled the rug out from under the downtown businesses on Adams Street (“Downtown divided: City shifts stance on Adams Street,” May 6). There was a deal to keep the […]

PROTECT CITIZENS Many people were surprised to learn in last week’s cover story (“Force to be reckoned with,” April 29) that when police stop you for a broken tail light or any routine traffic violation, they may order you out of your vehicle for no other reason than the traffic stop, and doing so does […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. —- SYBC WAS OVERLOOKED Imagine my surprise when I read in Illinois Times that the Springfield Youth Ballet Company was given a passing mention in your article about local arts and COVID, yet no one […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. —- SYBC WAS OVERLOOKED Imagine my surprise when I read in Illinois Times that the Springfield Youth Ballet Company was given a passing mention in your article about local arts and COVID, yet no one […]

PLAN FOR TRAINS LEAVING Linear park? It will be railroad tracks covered in weeds (“Reimagining downtown,” April 1). They sound confident that all this money will show up. I hope they are right. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to reroute the trains, it seems like maybe a plan for the Third Street corridor […]

AUTISM ADVOCATES Many families wake up one day with a diagnosis of autism they know nothing about (“Rather than light it up blue…,” April 1). They struggle to find answers and ways to help their child receive medically necessary care. They fight to get services and ensure their child is not excluded. Self-advocates (most of […]

YOUR VOTE COUNTS Your March 18 issue contained an interesting juxtaposition of articles.  First was the piece by Dr. Stephen Soltys decrying Republicans and their alleged attempts in many states to disqualify voters (“Democracy depends on the right to vote”). According to him, this is because there is not enough concrete evidence of fraud to […]