When I heard the topic for the guest presenter – alcohol and drugs – I thought these elementary school children would be bored by it. At first, while the speaker droned through preliminary remarks, there was little interest, but as soon as he mentioned drugs, hands shot up. “My dad was on drugs,” one of […]
Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the editor 10/9
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. UNDERSTANDABLE Dean Olsen’s cover story about the local impact of cuts to Medicaid was excellent – thorough, well-researched, with multiple perspectives (“Losing health care coverage,” Oct. 2). You made a complicated issue easier to understand […]
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Letters to the editor 10/2/25
MINIMUM WAGE AFFECTS MENTAL HEALTH Your otherwise excellent cover story, “Addressing children’s mental health,” (Sept. 11) states that the problems stem from “influence from a rapidly increasing number of technology and social media offerings in the past two decades.” That is indeed part of it, but it’s more like three or even four decades. I […]
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Letters to the editor 9/25/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. NEED RESIDENTS If you want to revive downtown, you need a base of downtown residents (Springfield City Council SeeGov highlight reel, Sept. 2). The downtown merchants can’t rely on only tourist traffic. The Wyndham hotel […]
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Letters to the editor 9/11/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. GREAT PROJECT Thank you to Yolanda Rice for investing in this community (“Former King’s Daughters Home to house nurses,” Aug. 28). I hope there is an open house when the project is complete. I remember […]
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Letters to the editor 8/28/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. DREAMGIRLS A DELIGHT Dreamgirls is the storyline of love, music and fame within competing communities struggling to make a name for themselves to reach the top of the Billboard charts. Their biggest obstacles are themselves in […]
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Letters to the editor 8/14/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — SUPPORT DOWNTOWN Downtown Springfield is becoming a ghost town, and it feels like nobody in leadership cares. The mayor, the aldermen, city departments, economic development, tourism – no one is stepping up to protect […]
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Letters to the editor 08-07-2025
NO FUN My opinion is Republicans like to control what businesses and people do, and the fun they have, under the guise of public safety (“Last call is earlier than ever,” July 24). Marie Carnes Via Facebook.com/illinoistimes TOO MUCH TIME Most bars have computerized registers, so it should be easy to quantify the impact of […]
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Letters to the editor 7/31/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — TURN OVER STADIUM I find it disappointing to the point of exasperation that the ownership of the Lucky Horseshoes has to resort to begging the community to pressure the Springfield Park District to live […]
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Letters to the editor 7/24/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — NOTHING NEW How many variations of this article is Illinois Times going to write (“City’s Black Caucus addresses disparities,” July 10)? It starts with broad pronouncements that everyone knows and has heard a million […]
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Letters to the editor 7/17/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — BROADER PROBLEM “Mental health is a community responsibility” is a good article (July 3). The topic deserves deeper examination, but not necessarily as a promotion for a tax increase. The problem is not unique […]
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Letters to the editor 07-10-2025
PUBLIC SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service is a service of the government and written into the Constitution (“Congress must act to pull USPS back from the brink,” June 26). It was never supposed to make a profit and should not be privatized. It’s the only government agency that is required to pre-fund its retiree benefits […]
