Letters to the Editor

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. CWLP DEBACLE Thank you, Bruce Rushton, but is it really necessary to have you expose our city officials’ decision to hide the truth from us tax-drained citizens (“What happened? City still mum on CWLP mishap,” […]

EASTER JOY RIDE Last week, the coronavirus spirit serendipitously brought me in contact with the Drew family while driving through the Iles Park neighborhood in Springfield. Their lawn was covered with pastel Easter eggs and a sign that read “Happy Spring.” I smiled and stopped my car for a quick picture. I noticed Mrs. Drew […]

SOCIAL DISTANCING? I wrote a letter to the editor recently questioning the wisdom of some of the governmental mandates roiling our society. I was told I was divisive, inflammatory and not helpful to public discourse. Hell, my wife tells me that on her good days. I went to Lowe’s at noon on Sunday, March 28, […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEE? My wife works for the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) as a health facilities surveillance nurse. She is a reviewer whose job involves processing reports and paperwork generated by surveyors who inspect […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. COVID-19 DEATHS AS COMMON AS LIGHTNING STRIKES When I was in college my math professor said, “When you are in a sticky situation, calculate the odds of catastrophe. That will often put things in perspective.” […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. CITY NEEDS TREES, NOT A STUDY This article is frustrating (“Budget blues and greens: Trees get cut,” Feb. 27). My husband, Mark McWilliams, along with Dave Bender, former executive director of the Illinois Green Industry […]

NO SCREENING FOR CORONAVIRUS My husband and I are in self-quarantine for the next two weeks in our Leland Grove home following a vacation that included time spent in Venice and other parts of northern Italy. Warnings regarding travel to Italy began after we were there. During our visit, we had our temperature checked by […]

LETTERS We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. STOP CHANGING THE CLOCK The bill to make Daylight Saving Time the year-round time has passed in the Illinois Senate and is headed for the House. I am all for stopping the clock-changing twice […]

FRIENDLY, BUT NO AGREEMENT I read your recent Cap City article (“Shocking,” Feb. 20) about a complaint by assistant U.S. attorney Tim Bass about others in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in the course of the corruption prosecution of former Representative Aaron Schock. I have, as the U.S. Attorney from 2010 through 2016, a different perspective. […]

LETTERS We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to letters@illinoistimes.com. LITTLE PROGRESS ON HOMELESSNESS I’ve noticed that conversations and concerns regarding homelessness frequently change, as often as the weather moves from one extreme to another. Something else I recognize is our community’s inability to […]

CORRUPTION IN THE STATE We send the legislators our money, only to learn it is not enough because they over-promised and overspent.  Then they want more of our money, so they raise our taxes and fees. So we send them more money, but they don’t have the decency to give us a fair, open and […]

LINCOLN’S CLOCK? Bruce Rushton is muddying the waters more than clearing them (“Tick Tock: ALPM issues go beyond hat,” Jan. 23). He may have a voicemail from me saying one thing, but I returned his call one night at my first chance to do so – he never again attempted to reach me – to […]