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 NOBODY FORCED TO SHOP AT WAL-MART Move over, Halliburton — another bad […]
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The difference between homelessness and the homeless
It didn’t take long in the homeless shelter for me to realize I am among exceptionally gifted people. Funny. Smart. Kind. Troubled, too. But many seem no more troubled than a lot of other people I know. I went in thinking this would be a good place to learn and cameout thinking it would be […]
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common sense 11-4-04
At last, the Golden Age of television is upon us again! But, alas, this is not the golden age of TV quality — but literally the age of TV gold, when advertisers have become the programming. Leading the way is the Disney’s ABC television network, which has now opened its expanse of our public airwaves […]
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Son of a gun
Everybody has a story. Take my husband. His story features a Triumph Spitfire and a near-fatal encounter with a hefty opossum. My pop has a story about finding true love with his girlfriend from grade school at the age of 62. I have a story that involves two dead guys named Dusty and my childhood […]
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common sense 10-28-04
Everywhere I travel, I hear the cries of anxious progressives who fear that President George W. Bush is about to be elected. “The polls, the polls,” they wail, pointing to constant reports that the election is nip and tuck. Let me say it plainly: The polls are horse hockey. And George W. Bush is a […]
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letters 10-28-04
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 A MATTER OF LOCAL SECURITY I read Fletcher Farrar’s column “Not another […]
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Obamarama
Because most of you had other priorities — such as watching the Cardinals dispose of the Astros — I figured I’d do my civic duty and tell you about another thrilling match-up last Thursday night: the second debate between U.S. Senate candidates Barack Obama and Alan Keyes. The first Obama-Keyes debate, held at the Old […]
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letters 10-21-04
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 NOTES FROM A CITIZEN CANVASSER I’m just back from election canvassing on […]
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common sense 10-21-04
Wal-Mart, we’re told, is the epitome of free enterprise in America — work hard, be innovative, and achieve efficiencies, and your company will be rewarded with riches! Oh yes, one more thing: Be sure to load up on government subsidies along the way. Good Jobs First, a research center that studies the doling out of […]
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Springfield’s unknown congressman
As a career Quad Cities TV anchor with a three-year stint on CNN, Andrea Zinga, 54, had scheduled the press conference with a suitable TV backdrop. She would announce her 10-point education plan across the street from Millikin University’s football field. But when no cameras showed up, Zinga and I and her campaign aide went […]
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Backdraft
I feel sorry for Mark Dyment’s first-grade teacher. I’ve never met the lady and don’t know who she is; I just know she had her hands full. Dyment has a full-throttle personality. Perpetually revved up and endlessly enthusiastic, he must have spent half of every semester sentenced to stand in the corner for rambunctious behavior. […]
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The not-so-mighty Quinn
Not long ago, Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office threatened Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn with political divorce. Quinn has been a critic of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority for years, but he was completely cut out of the governor’s massive restructuring-and-reform plan. This did not please the formerly outspoken lieutenant governor, and when he made plans […]
