Editorial

Letters to the editor

Machiavelli’d Be Proud of Them By Ed Klein Republican Ted Cruze and several of his accomplices say they’d like to eliminate minimum wage laws. Other Republican intellects complain that people are taking advantage of unemployment insurance because it pays more…

It’s War, Folks!

By Ed Klein, Peoria, IL We’re all aware of the many wars being waged around the world today. However, the war I’m referring to is one being waged right here in the United States. No, not the war against Christmas,…

Is nothing sacred?

by Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL A few years ago we could discuss local and national issues on local radio talk shows. I recall a highly exasperated woman calling in, complaining that we were always talking about rape: “Is nothing…

Don’t shoot … pretty please?

You might forgive the average consumer of government propaganda for assuming the City of Peoria’s “Don’t Shoot” campaign is, well, so much hooey. You’ve seen the ads. They are plastered in coffee house bulletin boards, the sides of buses that…

Guest editorials

Out of the Mouths of Babes By Dolores M. Klein Peoria, IL A young actor created a furor recently by telling his young church-going friends not to watch “Two and a Half Men,” his TV show, calling it trash! By…

Selective Memory OR???

Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL Things never were the way they used to be! That saying applies to the kinds of statements in the atmosphere as the election gets closer. An Associated Press series about Social Security contained an assertion that had…