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Your Opinion: What is freedom? Dear Editor: What does freedom mean? We all desire it but can mere laws grant them? Published Jun. 15 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Don't draft women Dear Editor: The draft should not be enforced on our ladies. Should that be their desire to join the military, so be it, but to have it thrust upon them thereby limiting their motherly instincts is not the answer. Published Jun. 15 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Infrastructure priorities, PDMP disappointment Dear Editor: I firmly agree with the LTE dated June 10 titled "City needs to prioritize infrastructure." Published Jun. 15 2021 @ 10:30pm

Your Opinion: Infrastructure priorities, PDMP disappointment Dear Editor: I firmly agree with the LTE dated June 10 titled "City needs to prioritize infrastructure. Published Jun. 14 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Who's in charge of America? Dear Editor: Since President Joe Biden has taken the realm as commander-in-chief he has not proved he can command America. Published Jun. 13 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Dominoes about to fall Dear Editor: It seems like the dominoes are about to fall. The audits in the swing states are picking up speed because the people are demanding transparency. Published Jun. 12 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Trump enthusiasm bordering on cult status Dear Editor: The current enthusiasm, by the major political players in the Republican Party, for Donald Trump running as president of the United States in 2024, is bordering on cult status. Published Jun. 12 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Slavery: a worldwide enterprise Dear Editor: In researching whether the "Babylon" referred to in Revelations might refer to another place in today's world, I discovered that Asia and the Arab world produce all the goods/animals ascribed to the falling Babylon (some of which are pearls, fine linen, silk, ivory, myrrh, olive oil, cattle, cinnamon). Published Jun. 11 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: On the edge of another bad decision Dear Editor: Cole County residents have been plagued by the Cole County Commission's poor decisions. Published Jun. 10 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: City needs to prioritize infrastructure Dear Editor: Opened the paper to the local page, and I see the headline about scooters! Published Jun. 10 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Biden 'nice' man? Nothing further from the truth Dear Editor: A recent LTE claimed President Joe Biden was a "nice" man. Published Jun. 9 2021 @ 11:05pm

Your Opinion: Sinister COVID plandemic Dear Editor: What has been happening in the U.S. and around the world will eventually be seen as crimes against humanity by those involved in this sinister COVID plandemic. Published Jun. 9 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Core principles of our nation Dear Editor: Among the poems by Shakespeare and Walt Whitman I memorized in high school was Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in which he summoned the nation to prevail against Southern insurrectionists who would divide us in two. Published Jun. 9 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Could Biden/Harris handlers be doing something right? Dear Editor: Could it be that the Biden/Harris handlers are going to do something right? Published Jun. 8 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Mystery of how Trump became president Dear Editor: The mystery of how Donald Trump became president of the United States can perhaps be explained. Published Jun. 8 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Call for action? Dear Editor: Recently on Fox News, Judge Jeanine Pirro said, "the demand for justice calls for actions actually outside the realm of law and order." Published Jun. 8 2021 @ 12:05am

Our Opinion: Don't forget your sunscreen and a good book It's summertime. Whether you're at home relaxing in the AC, on vacation at the beach or at the pool — don't forget a good book. Published Jun. 8 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Police budget cuts Dear Editor: First, it was Seattle making budget cuts to its police department. Published Jun. 7 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Time to heal Dear Editor :It never dawned on me how ill-informed most of us were in our childhood years. Published Jun. 6 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Luetkemeyer's legislation isn't helping district Dear Editor: On May 22, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer might as well have declared the world was flat. Published Jun. 6 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Misunderstanding about critical race theory Dear Editor: Recently, critical race theory has come under fire as some sort of nefarious means to subvert the status quo. Published Jun. 5 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: What's happened to our country? Dear Editor: What has happened to the country we once knew? One Nation Under God — Love Thy Neighbor as Thy Self — United We Stand. Published Jun. 5 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Promise made, promise not kept Dear Editor: At our last Eastside Business Association meeting, it was stated that upgrades to Moreau Heights and Thorpe Gordon would be delayed another year as the School Board voted to spend $16 million to make our other schools energy efficient by things like LED lighting, and measuring and monitoring how much water gets used to flush toilets and wash hands. Published Jun. 4 2021 @ 12:05am