Hopefully, Chicago and Illinois will remain at the forefront of creative efforts to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable.
Category: Letters to the Editor
Letters: ‘Risking hospitality’ is essential to dealing with the messiness of our democracy
We need to embrace and leverage the incredible strength within the vast diversity of our country and risk hospitality in our daily lives.
Letters: The Trump administration should add resources to immigration processing
President Donald Trump’s administration should consider moving government employees to an enormously expanded immigration department.
Letters: Proposed ban on fur sales in Chicago is just performative
Ald. Raymond Lopez’s Trade in Fur Products ordinance is an exercise in performative position-taking.
Letters: Shame on the Democrats for their behavior at President Donald Trump’s address
Shame on the Democrats. They just don’t get it, even after a disastrous presidential election.
Letters: To stop gerrymandering in Illinois, a federal authority should decree an end to it nationwide
The problem won’t be solved until Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court finally require all states, not just Illinois, to fairly draw legislative boundaries.
Letters: The policies of pharmacy benefit managers continue to erode community pharmacies
The consequences of unchecked PBM practices are clear in Illinois, where more than 80 pharmacies closed in 2024 alone.
Letters: Talk of federal job losses overlooks the serious fiscal cliff America is facing
It’s easy to complain about the pain without dealing with the underlying painful, tough choices that need to be made on the fiscal issues America is facing.
Letters: Does the treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prove our strength?
Did the American people really need to see our top two elected leaders bully a respected world leader in public to prove our strength?
Letters: Gov. JB Pritzker’s disaster proclamations during COVID-19 were not the actions of a king
Gov. JB Pritzker and others issued the mandates in order to protect the citizenry and limit hospitalizations and deaths.