Letters to the Editor

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com MINER’S POINT Meg Miner’s letter to the Illinois Times was thorough and […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com KEEP ‘EM COMING While I have always enjoyed reading Illinois Times, I […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com GIVE ‘EM A CHEER The Springfield High School Cheerleaders recently won first […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com ABE AND GEORGE I think that the piece by Jeannette Batz in […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com ANOTHER MYSTERY Just to add to the mystery regarding the World War […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com Everybody to the table The Springfield Race Relations Task Force welcomes the […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com One has to wonder I really enjoyed your excellent article on Mike […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com When horse is the course Thank you for your article “Neighsayers” [Pete […]

Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com My most difficult years I joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in September […]

Kudos to pioneers Thank you for your recent article on Ray Spooner, a Certified Nurse Midwife at Carle Clinic in Urbana [Deb Aronson, “Against the Odds,” Oct. 23]. Spooner exemplifies what nurse midwifery is all about. As a fellow midwife, I had the opportunity to hear Ray speak about water births at one of our […]

On the line I was surprised to see among the list of ten censored news stories your inclusion of number six, “closing access to information technology” [Kari Lydersen, “Censored!” Oct. 9]. Telecommunication company representatives have been quoted as saying they “missed the boat” on the Internet boom of the ’90s and intend to control and […]

Corrections We changed a word and made an error in Peter J. Wagner’s Sept. 11 letter to the editor. Wagner wrote us to say CWLP’s proposed rate increase “may not be in the best interests of Springfield citizen-ratepayers.” The telephone number for the Bluestem Bake Shop in Elkhart, the subject of a review in the […]