As a native of Charleston and Eastern alumnus, it’s great to see a young person who cares so much about her community and university! I know Charleston has changed greatly in the last 15 years, as enrollment has also dropped significantly. It is great that the EIU volleyball team has had gre…
Would you impede or prevent your garbage man from doing his duty?
In the world of politics, the practice of gerrymandering has come to be seen as sleazy and even unfair. Those who do gerrymandering are drawing district lines to their advantage. They want to assure their future success in future elections. This tactic is described as politicians choosing th…
In the Oct. 17 issue of JG-TC, Rep. Adam Niemerg questioned Pope Leo XIV's response to an award for Sen. Dick Durbin. Pope Leo was making the point that if you are truly pro-life, you cannot only be opposed to abortion but must support all the living. This includes the born as well as the un…
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Day was Sept. 9. The awareness should be year-round and kept foremost the seriousness and need to educate the dangers and effects of using alcohol during pregnancy.
We find ourselves now with the probability of having a communist mayor in New York City. While this large pompous city thinks of itself as being a weather vane for the remainder of the United States, it is anything but that. During the American Revolution, this city entertained and quartered…
I have been a supporter of your presidency from day one, but the tariffs you have imposed on various nations have had repercussions you never intended or expected. The world is a complex place. Many nations have an influence on each other, insofar as the items that are finally produced in an…
Donald Trump ran on the promise of lowering prices and ending wars. He's done neither. Instead, he's putting armed troops in our major metropolitan cities and has renamed the Gulf of Mexico. He's threatened to take over both Greenland and the Panama Canal. Our president pulled off the bigges…
In 1962, President Kennedy delivered a speech to mark the dawn of the Apollo missions. One line in particular has been ringing in my ears:
When is the city council going to do something about the excessive spending on Charleston Avenue between Second Street and Logan? Many cars and motorcycles wait for the green light at Second Street and see how fast they can get to Logan Street. The fact that there is a school in the 200 bloc…
As one ages, it seems as if our medical bills increase. Most of us have Medicare that will pay a portion of our medical expenses — but we still must pay copayments. With an increase in the number of visits to our physician comes more expenses.
Republicans know they're in trouble. That's why they're trying to change their voting districts to favor Republicans in red states like Texas.
Several nations have the bomb, but only one has the religious will to use it. Every country that has the bomb knows full well that if they were to use it against an enemy, their own nation would be obliterated from the face of the earth.
When every judge in the Coles County courthouse recuses themselves from overseeing a property tax corruption case filed by a citizen — only to later prosecute that same citizen for a felony after they exposed misconduct — it’s not just bad optics. It’s abuse of process and a constitutional c…
The letter, "Windmills and CO2" printed July 25, tries to use typical, head-burying, climate change denialist tactics in an attempt to attack alternative energy sources.
In an especially shortsighted and destructive move, the Trump administration has announced it will eliminate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development, including its network of laboratories. Some of the best scientists in the world work at EPA labs protect…
Question: Why should we the people have to be bothered by these seemingly never ending political campaigns? We have more important personal matters to attend to. Why are we spending all this money on the election process just to elect a president who has no power at all? A president that is …
Gaslighting is an effort to make the victim question their own versions of events.
A friend asked, “Who would defund that?” while talking about a Faith in Place grant for a mini orchard at our church that would have donated fruit to food pantries. And I thought, yes, who would? My answer: Few people would approve defunding a small grant to help the food insecure. But since…
Recently a letter on this opinion page posed the question, "Was America founded as a Christian nation?"The answer is not a matter for debate. It is found in the document that made the United States one nation, namely, the Constitution.In the preamble, reasons for establishing the Constitutio…
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The letter, "10 reasons for not having a wind farm" was written well with its objections to windmills as they take over more prime farmland. From a lifetime of farming, the letter writer knows how damaging windmills can be. Others object to their noise pollution.
Over the past 10 years, drugs have flowed into this country at an alarming rate. It used to be that the making of methamphetamine was rampant in Illinois, but most of it now comes in via the drug cartels south of the border, as does the heroin, fentanyl, etc. Not only has President Trump loc…
After four weeks of President Trump's leadership, many comments have been made of the performance of his administration and his leadership — many of them negative. Some seem shocked or disappointed at the level of unity Republicans are showing around their time-honored banner of prosperity a…
Current debate centers on the issue that America was or was not founded as a “Christian” nation. The pro-side is typically taken by Christian, conservative Republican. Those who dispute America’s Christian genesis are typically secular humanist, liberal Democrats. From this issue stems Ameri…
As the former Lincoln curator for the State of Illinois, I wanted to let folks know of a "once in a lifetime" auction being held in Chicago at the Freeman's/Hindman auction house May 21.
Independence and resilience have long been central to our American identity, and here in Coles County, we have an opportunity to more fully embrace those values. That’s why I support Coles Wind, which will make our community more resilient while keeping our energy dollars close to home.
My best childhood memories are of my grandparents' farm in Newton, Illinois. My parents raised my sister and me in Champaign, but all holidays and most of the summer, my sister and I were in Newton, either on the farm or my other grandparents' home in Newton. The days were full of exploring,…
They are not economically feasible and cost prohibitive.