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 WHAT AREN’T THEY HIDING? In response to Dusty Rhodes’ “What are they […]
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Common sense 9-16-04
Did you take full and proper notice of the political coming-out of President George W. Bush’s twin daughters? Jenna and Barbara Bush, the 22-year-old twins, have long been kept away from the political glare, but they’re now adults who have just graduated from college, and both have been brought into the limelight by the Bush […]
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The road home
Nobody who knew Tom Teague can believe he’s dead. It happened last Saturday, on his 61st birthday, as he napped. At this point, though, his departure is merely physical. Spiritually, Tom had so much momentum going that his presence will linger for some time. His writing — straightforward, spare, and efficient — has fed Illinois […]
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Weird Al
As if Alan Keyes wasn’t embarrassing enough with his hours-long diatribes, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate had to go off and verbally slime the vice president’s daughter. That’s just great. It’s not as if Dick Cheney holds grudges or anything. Calling Cheney’s lesbian daughter a selfish hedonist will have absolutely no repercussions. If Keyes […]
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letters 9-9-04
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 SWIFT CARTOON WAS INSENSITIVE Although I usually do not read your publication, […]
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common sense 9-9-04
See whether this sounds familiar: A sour and rabidly partisan Vietnam vet named John O’Neill is plucked from obscurity by the Republican White House to be used as an attack dog against John Kerry. O’Neill creates a hokey “citizens” group to pound Kerry over his war service. But the assault I’m describing is not this […]
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Not another Clinton nuke
Two St. Louis men were arrested last month after being seen operating video cameras in the vicinity of City Water, Light and Power’s coal-fired generating station. Turns out they were filming ducks on Lake Springfield, but hey, you can’t be too careful these days, right? You can be too careful about some things and not […]
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What are they hiding?
If you want to know what percentage of city employees are white and what percentage are minority, all you have to do is call the city personnel office and talk to assistant director Lori Bluhm. She’ll tell you that 87 percent of employees are white. Ask about their sex, and she’ll tell you that 38 […]
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letters 9-2-04
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 WHAT, ME WORRY? The article “Dark clouds ahead” [J.R. Pegg, Aug. 19] […]
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Wal-Mart buys respectability
Wal-Mart has a problem. People all across America and the world are learning that it’s a beast of a corporation that — among other things — pays poverty wages, engages in massive sexual discrimination, exploits sweatshop labor, bullies its suppliers, muscles local competitors out of business, and tries to buy its way into cities that […]
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Get out the map
“If a map is accurate and you can read it, you won’t get lost. If you know a culture, you will know your way around in the life of a society.” — Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn, Mirror for Man (1952). In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, 19-year-old Hyder Akbar recounts the interrogation […]
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Who needs American workers?
Maybe you’re one of the 2 million Americans who’ve recently had their jobs offshoredto India, Pakistan, or elsewhere, or one of the millions more whose jobs are expected to be shipped abroad in the next few years. If so, don’t worry, Bucko, for a new growth industry has arisen that offers exciting job opportunities. You, […]
