Editorial Page
Letters: Let’s go, Darin, let’s see you run
by Burt Raabe • • 1 Comment
He says he wants to run for U.S. Senator, but Illinois is a state — not a district carved out in Springfield.
by Scott Shepler • • 0 Comments
Emily Gill: Refugee status for Afrikaners is deplorable
by Emily Gill • • 1 Comment
When so many others, such as former Afghan allies, are being turned away from the U.S. as refugees even before they are given an opportunity to explain why they deserve that status, the obvious question is why South Africans are different.
Letters: Watershed moments for Kickapoo Creek
by David Pittman • • 0 Comments
It is a living entity that deserves our respect and attention because when we improve the Kickapoo we improve our own lives.
Letters: Demo 2025 — symphony of destruction
by Burt Raabe • • 0 Comments
The machines resembled dinosaurs, an extinct species, devouring the extincting shelter for carnivorous, unleashed predatory dire wolves of Wall Street.
by Scott Shepler • • 1 Comment
Letters: Can new divisions help our derision?
by Burt Raabe • • 1 Comment
If gerrymandering were to disappear, politics and politicians would be less extreme. People would have to talk to each other. Maybe new parties would spring up
Letters: ‘One of these days …’ Way to go, Dad
by Community Word Staff • • 1 Comment
‘Religious Studies Graduate of the Year’ will make good on his lifelong promise and graduate from Bradley University between his two sons, Mark and Jack.
Emily Gill: Executive order cannot nix birthright citizenship
by Emily Gill • • 1 Comment
Most undocumented immigrants have been hard-working residents of the U.S. for years. Without Birthright Citizenshiip, their U.S.-born children would become stateless persons, with no rights because no government would be obligated to protect them. As the political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, citizenship is ‘the right to have rights.’