Letters to the editor submitted to the Naperville Sun.
Category: Naperville Sun Opinion
Donna Vickroy: Did you hear the one about the Lockport brewery that packs the house for live storytelling?
Since the beginning of time, the story has been the conduit of relationship, the bridge across culture, proof of our humanity, and, when deftly told, a gift for the ages.
Josh McBroom/Guest Column: Know who you’re voting for, especially if they’ve taken actions with which you don’t agree
When someone asks for your vote — especially someone central to the pandemic response — it’s important to evaluate them based on their actions, not just their words.
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: Musk gleeful as he discusses ‘dismantling’ our government; Bruzan Taylor has his vote for reelection in April
Letters to the editor submitted for publication to the Naperville Sun.
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.
Letters to the Editor: No support for D203’s ‘half-baked’ schedule changes; Naperville needs to support its immigrant population
Letters to the editor submitted for publication to the Naperville Sun.
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.
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.