Category Archives: Opinion

By David StanczakDisclaimer: I'm not a Donald Trump fan. Yesterday, the Pantagraph quoted an editorial in the Springfield Journal-Register taking exception to the Trump administration's muzzling of pr...

By Mike Matejka Watching the current shock and awe Presidency unfold in Washington, I'm wondering, why are our central Illinois Republicans are now so quiet on executive over-reach. President Obama, f...

By Pamela Sweetwood There should be a pathway to bipartisanship. Both parties suffered greatly from the last election and should have received the message that the American public is unhappy. It seems...

By Camille TaylorAfter the Executive Order banning travel was signed, the Not In Our Town Facebook page lit up wondering how to show support of all of our neighbors. A solidarity event was planned las...

By David Stanczak About the only thing as predictable as death and taxes are news stories written during a time of tight budgets focusing on all the horrors that will come about if the budget situatio...

By Jim Fisher It's funny how the biggest news story since the presidential election was how the Russians hacked the American political parties and somehow had influenced the defeat of Hillary Clinton....

By David Stanczak I'm looking forward to my third sigh of relief in the last three months. The first came on November 8, when the nastiest presidential campaign between the two nastiest candidates in ...

By Sally Pyne THEY'RE BA-A-A-ACK! Today marks the first day of the spring semester at Illinois State University. You probably noticed the increase in traffic.... waiting at stop signs that have been l...

By Mike Matejka Sunday would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s 87th birthday, if he had lived. Dr. King has become a venerated American icon. He well deserves that honor, but in that ens...

By Nancy Cruse I'm looking for a little sympathy here. On the 21st of this month child number six (yes, I said six!) will turn 13 – my final journey through teenagedom with a child of mine. Dear...