Letters to the Editor

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. THRILL GONE FOR FAMILY FARMS I read your article about ethanol and found it interesting, but I would suggest you do […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. I WANT MY VOTE TO COUNT Thomas J. Immel sets a scene that if the states move away from electoral votes to […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. FIRST STEP TOWARD SECESSION? Whether Illinois — or any state — should adopt the National Popular Vote initiative as described by […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. DON’T SCUTTLE ELECTORAL COLLEGE Be prepared for more voter disenfranchisement. The so-called “National Popular Vote” bill is sitting on the desk of […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. THE REST OF THE STORY Tom Rand of Naperville is far more guilty of ignoring “facts, sound logic [and] reasoned conclusions” […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. FATHER DOESN’T KNOW BEST I think Terry Young of Springfield may be misplacing his anger when he criticizes the clerk of the […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. CHECK EVERY RETURNING VETERAN I was moved by your article “A father’s plea to stop veterans’ suicides” [Fletcher Farrar, Dec. 20]. […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. WHEN HOPE IS AN ILLUSION Today, the richest people own and control a great deal of the world while making up […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. GOODINTENTIONSNOTENOUGH Hear no evil, see no evil seems to be a common practice — it is human nature. Yet it has […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. IMMORAL NOT TO WATERBOARD Two seemingly unrelated opinion pieces in the most recent Illinois Times point to a problem with today’s Left. […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. REQUIRED READING I had been meaning to write a letter earlier regarding Dusty Rhodes’ story on former police officer Tara Borders […]

Untitled Document We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address, and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705; fax 217-753-3958; e-mail editor@illinoistimes.com. THIS YEAR, I FOUND THE COURAGEI just read the Dusty Rhodes column and want to express my appreciation [“Love and Skittles,” […]