Letters

A dress code at Perry Memorial Hospital for volunteers has caused at least four Gold Coats to withdraw at a loss of 1,000 work hours to the hospital per year. This is incredible considering that the Gold Coat staff was already short-handed.

All of us tend to take for granted the electricity we enjoy. It is so easy to flip a switch, push a button and behold, we have light. The microwave does its job and so on. Then, all of a sudden — no electricity. You do what you can, but you become very much aware of how we are dependent on it being there.

It was reported in the July 20, 2010, edition of the Southtown Star that Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-11th), has resorted to what amounts to smear tactics in her campaign for the 11th Congressional District seat against her opponent, Adam Kinzinger (Republican), a captain and pilot in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

I cannot believe that Mark Kirk has been caught lying again. This time about his 1976 rescue after capsizing a sailboat.

The oil spill is an exacting portrait of the culture of death.

With the selling of Resurrection Church in LaSalle, plus now the demolition of St. Benedict’s in Ladd, and the loss of attendance in the four suspended churches in our area, it is time to challenge the church’s hierarchy. People are tired of the possible extinction of their Catholic heritage.

I guess the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor doesn’t mean a whole lot to people if it didn’t happen in their backyard! Try not to forget the people and their babies in the planes that were used as bombs to hit the buildings; what were they going through? How about the people in the buildings many, many stories up, having no escape route! Now they want to build a mosque within two blocks of Ground Zero!

What is capitalism? Is it what has set the United States apart from the rest of the world? Webster says capitalism is “an economic system in which the means of production, distribution and exchange are privately owned and operated for private gain.”

After the last Princeton Elementary School Board meeting, the paper ran an article about the Bright Beginnings and Early Beginnings Programs held at Douglas School. I was concerned after reading the article, and I wanted to find out a little more, so I talked to some people who were at the meeting.

I have been writing these letters for the past several months for a number of reasons. The first is to educate the residents of Bureau County about the upcoming narrowbanding migration for portable radio users. Secondly, to raise awareness of solutions that are available to meet the FCC regulations regarding the requirement to narrowband these radios. Another reason was to publicly persuade a secretive Sheriff John Thompson to agree to an assessment of the components of the radio system in use at the Bureau County Sheriff’s Department (BCSD). On the 27th of April, Sheriff Thompson agreed to that assessment. I contacted Gem Electronics and a company representative began that assessment. That assessment included those radios operated by the c

My letter is in response to Mr. Brian Lucas in his letter titled, “Show some respect!”

I am writing this Letter to the Editor to voice my opinion.

United States Code , 36 U.S.C. 301, states that during a rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present and not in uniform may render the military salute; men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold the headdress at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note. And when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the f

Having relatives in Illinois, I pay attention to Illinois state issues. I read The Bureau County Republican article “Testimony reveals Blagojevich played political games with Senate seat” (June 23). While I am not defending the actions of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, I am dismayed by media reports. I  feel the focus should be on his proven acts ... not his whims nor his daydreams of grandeur ... but rather on those deeds which he actually put in motion to be implemented. The report said Blagojevich “played political games.” If he breached the law, it should be described as an alleged breach — not a “game.”