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. — 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

THANKS FOR COVERAGE Just today we received a digital copy of ReGen. It looks like a most interesting publication! I live in Madison, Wisconsin. My father was the last brewmaster of the Reisch Brewery. I am the oldest of his 10 children (“Springfield’s Reisch Beer makes a comeback,” Summer ReGen). Thank you for the feature […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — NO THIRD STREET GREENWAY What are our leaders thinking? For over a decade, successive administrations have focused on turning the Third Street rail corridor into a multi-use trail, the Third Street greenway. Current estimates […]

TRY SOMETHING NEW How many times are you going to rehash the huge vacancy of downtown offices (“A plan to save downtown,” June 5)? This city government has been talking about repairing the downtown since the 1970s. Remember Time – not Illinois Times, but the major Time magazine – had our Hilton hotel towering over […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — A GOOD CHANGE I will assume that nuns do not lie but unfortunately do fall prey to media and Democrat lies. The proposed reforms to Medicaid and food stamps would, horror of all horrors, […]

PROTESTING WORKS Thanks to Kelley Hatlee for writing this fantastic guest contribution (“Does protesting really work?,” May 15). Nonviolent protest does matter, and it does work. The data is there to back it up. Local 50501 chapters, Indivisible, Women’s March and many more organization absolutely need pro-democracy Americans to get involved by making calls, engaging […]

FALSE NARRATIVE As a former Springfield resident and engaged member of this community, I find the recent article “Economic gaps persist for Blacks” (May 15) to be less a data analysis and more a narrative instrument – crafted to reinforce the profitable illusion of racism rather than provide a clear-eyed view of economic complexity. Let’s […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — KEEP PROTESTING I want to applaud Illinois Times for using good journalism to set the record straight about what U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did when she visited Springfield (“An insult […]

HAVE EMPATHY Thank you to Illinois Times for reporting on the 50501 protests (“Protests continue in Springfield,” May 8). Reading the online comments was appalling – so much hate and vitriol right here in Mr. Lincoln’s hometown. Trump’s efforts to turn us against each other are clearly working. Those of us that support due process […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — A MAJOR LOSS Illinois Times is to be commended for the article “A loss for Illinois farmers and food banks” (April 24).  The cancellation of grants intended to enable food banks and schools to […]