Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.
Letters to the Editor: Vote yes on tax referendum to bolster Kane public safety; sheriff’s wrong about why jail population’s growing
Category: Elgin Courier-News Opinion
Donna Vickroy: Old age can be hell when all you want is calm, order, health and friends
This is how I expected retirement to be: A nice stroll into a calm, slow, nonthreatening way of life as we put aside the chaos of the working world. Au contraire!
Letters to the Editor: Say ‘no more’ Kane tax hikes — reject referendum; don’t believe everything artificial intelligence tells you
Letters to the editor submitted for publication to The Courier-News.
Donna Vickroy: Looking for moments of zen amid the national chaos the only way to stay sane
It didn’t take long to realize the new leadership’s manic attack on the status quo was by design. It also didn’t take long to realize the “shock and awe” was meant to both terrorize and exhaust us.
Donna Vickroy: Amphibian creatures don’t come much cuter than axolotls, and they make great pets too
You might know axolotls from video games like “Minecraft” and “Pokemon,” but the aquatic salamanders with unique, adorable and popular with people who keep amphians as pets.
Column: Legacy Night in St. Charles a celebration of ‘trailblazer’ female athletes and those who followed
The weeklong Legacy activities, which coincide with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, include reunion dinners and a Wednesday panel discussion at St. Charles East with women representing each decade talking about how sports evolved over time. The activities will culminate with a ceremony Friday when St. Charles East and St. Charles North girls basketball teams go head to head at East.
David McGrath: Trump’s use of ‘border czar’ bully to terrorize immigrants taking page from sadistic Civil Rights-era Bull Connor
Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan’s taking a page right out of notorious segragationist and Ku Klux Klan supporter Bull Connor’s playbook from the 1960s.
Donna Vickroy: Mission accomplished for late suburban astrophysicist who proved his doubters wrong
While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south suburban Chicago man was “touching” the sun. Traveling at “a blazing 430,000 miles per hour,” according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to reach the outer corona of the sun. If only its namesake, Eugene Parker, had lived to celebrate it.
Letters to the Editor: Many questions unanswered about Elgin’s tent city
Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.
Donna Vickroy: What a year it has been since you left us
It is better to hurt like hell because someone is gone than to never have known the joy that came from loving them.