Guest Column: Mayor Morrissey serves the Kool-Aid, dances with Sheffield, and bows to Scott Walker’s vision

By David Stocker The State of the City address Thursday, March 10, by Rockford Mayor Larry Morrissey (I) was a disappointment
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 17 Comments

Guest Column: Are charter schools worth the cost?

By Rachel Leon I attended the school board candidate forum Sunday, March 6, because I now realize how critical it is
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Accountability in government dependent on Sunshine Laws

By David Porter Let’s face it. The government really doesn’t want you, the taxpayer, knowing what it’s doing with your money.
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Madigan and Walsh: Don’t release FOID card names

By James C. Davis Mark Walsh, field director of the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said, “I don’t understand the
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Park District Commissioners offer perspective

By Jack L. Armstrong, Douglas J. Brooks, Chuck Brown Ph. D., Nate Martin, Tyler Smith Rockford Park District Board of Commissioners As
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Charters 402: INCS corrects several misconceptions about charter schools

Editor’s note: The following guest column is in response to the March 2-8, 2011, guest column “Charter Schools 101,” provided
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: $500,000 lawsuit filed against Winnebago County

By  Mike Castronovo Frustrated by a near two-year battle over his access rights, and accidents on the re-designed section of Harrison
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: 20,000 strong

By Diane Didier-Adolphson A family’s painful burden, a city’s helping hand, and a State of Illinois Prisoner Review Board does its
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Governor, grades and unions

By James C. Davis Let us start with the Wisconsin schools and a very brave Governor Scott Walker. Governor Walker is
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Don’t let the Rock River area become a dumping ground for industrial agriculture

By Tom Boswell I was working in northeast Wisconsin in 2004 when the countryside literally began to stink from the invasion
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Urgent action needed to save federal YouthBuild funding

Editor’s note: The following e-mail, distributed Feb. 25, is presented here in support of Comprehensive Community Solutions, Inc., (CCS) and
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Charter Schools 101

Provided by Tom McNamee Editor’s note: Tom McNamee is a concerned parent with a student at Washington Gifted Academy in Rockford. 
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 12 Comments

Guest Column: Is democracy coming to America?

Reflections on my trip to Madison Editor’s note: Thousands of protesters have gathered outside the capitol building in Madison, Wis., the
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 2 Comments

Guest Column: Letter to Board of Education and Dr. Sheffield

By Rachel Leon To the Board of Education representatives and Dr. Sheffield: I am writing as a concerned parent of three sons
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | 3 Comments

Guest Column: Parents of School District 205 must hold Sheffield accountable

By Bradley D. Maynard I’ve e-mailed rrstar with this and will send it to Dr. Sheffield after I send it to
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Gangs 101

By Eric Howanietz Free-lance Writer The question of gangs presents itself regularly in any narrative of community organizing in Rockford. But many
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Call President Obama today to help save independent family farmers!

By Food Democracy Now! Team info@fooddemocracynow.org Tell President Obama it’s time to level the playing field for America’s family farmers –
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: PBS, NPR funding under attack

From 170 million AmericansTM For Public Broadcasting website, http://capwiz.com Please be very concerned about all of the recent attempts and various
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: The dismantling of public education in Rockford

By David Stocker I went to the recent District 205 open houses with a lot of questions. Representatives of the administration,
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 5 Comments

Guest Column: FOZ says ‘thank you’

By Kyle Bevers Friends of Ziock (FOZ, for short) is a citizens group striving to develop a new economic model for
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Free to die and free to speak

By Jerry Dincin When the state of Georgia arrested four Final Exit Network (FEN) volunteers, it accused them and our group,
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Remembering the ’50s & ’60s

By Philip J. Wilson Let’s take a step back in time when the school teachers had full authority in their classrooms.
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Let’s keep our heads in the sunshine

By Dan Sears Where in the world do our educational critics develop their supposed system failure cures? Article after article puts all
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January 19, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: A conspiracy that is not a theory

By Thair Phillips Conspiracy theories have always captured America’s attention. The thought that a hidden group can manipulate and control money
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Eat the rich

By David Stocker One reads into reality that which suits their own agenda. A few years after I settled in the
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 2 Comments

Guest Column: Reload FOX

By Michael Cannariato I’ve spent hours watching FOX Noise since the Tucson murders and attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 3 Comments

Guest Column: Corporate ‘Medicare ADVANTAGE’ plans have limited coverage and a questionable future

By Dr. Jeffrey R. Cates More than 10 million seniors have enrolled in a private corporate version of Medicare known as
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 4 Comments

Guest Column: Minority-owned businesses catalyze job growth for all Americans

By David Hinson National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce The federal government just revealed that private-sector
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January 5, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Letter from a concerned former District 205 student

By James A. Gardner To whom it may concern: My name is James Gardner, and I am currently a German studies and
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January 5, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: District 205: Is it about the kids or the fat cats downtown?

By Jane Hayes and Mary Jo Powers “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”—Sir Walter
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January 5, 2011 | Also published in Guest Column | 5 Comments

Guest Column: Parents need to hold school district accountable

By Janet Buchanan What is really going on in our public school classrooms? As a teeny, tiny percentile, a parent of
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December 29, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Illinois is broken—let’s fix it!

By Joe Terrell Shhh! Listen…  do you hear what I hear? That sound is a massive freight train bearing down on
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December 29, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 3 Comments

Guest Column: Tea Party group rejects tax rate deal

By Jane Carrell and Bill Dietz While the President’s deal with Republicans extending current tax rates for two years may have
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December 29, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column> Online Exclusives | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Help make another difference in 2011

Editor’s note: In last week’s issue, the Quad Cities Waterkeeper asked our readers as environmental team members to help with
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December 8, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Lame duck likely to bring amnesty

By E.J. Pagel Democrats in Congress will now use hook, crook, blackmail and bribery in a desperate last-ditch attempt to pass
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December 8, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Response to Reggie’s column about marijuana

Editor’s note: The following is in response to Reggie Roberson’s Nov. 3-9 “Ramblings from Reggie” column “Weed and seed?” By M.J.
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December 1, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 2 Comments

Guest Column: Illinois Tea Party Patriots asks—what’s up with Republicans in Illinois?

S.B. 600 will restore accountability to state Republican leadership By Jane Carrell The Illinois Tea Party Patriots and affiliated groups across Illinois
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December 1, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: District 205 journalism courses must be offered for credit

Editor’s note: The following letter was sent by Barbara O. Erickson, Journalism Education Association mentor and retired teacher/adviser of Rockford
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 2 Comments

Guest Column: District 205—Getting the right image

By Paula Coulahan Laid-off Rockford Teacher Good quotes have a way of being passed down through history, and they apply so many
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 3 Comments

Guest Column: The Illinois Freedom of (Some) Information Act?

By Emily Miller Policy and Government Affairs Coordinator, Better Government Association How quickly we forget. In the wake of scandal and corruption at
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Is your property being downsized?

By Paul Arena President, Rockford Apartment Association The City of Rockford is in the process of changing zoning designations in various areas
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Grandfather clause for zoning chance

By Conor Brown Government Affairs Director, Rockford Area REALTORS The City of Rockford began the formal process of updating its zoning map,
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Help Dennis School students get books

By Rachel Leon As several parents at Dennis School met to plan the upcoming book fair, we came across a quote:
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Response to Marilyn Holder re: Obama

Editor’s note: The following guest column is in response to the Nov. 3-9 Letter to the Editor “Obama’s actions do
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November 24, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Watchdog group responds to District 205 superintendent’s remarks

Editor’s note: The following is in response to a four-page letter read by Rockford Public School District 205 Superintendent Dr.
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November 17, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 10 Comments

Guest Column: Another bite at the apple of secrecy

By Josh Sharp Director of Government Relations, Illinois Press Association Ninety-six hours. That’s how long it took the General Assembly to make
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November 17, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Blackwater/Xe flees Jo Daviess County, but training continues

By Dan Kenney Co-Coordinator, No Private Armies Nearly four years ago, citizens joined together in a small church near Mt. Carroll, Ill.,
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November 17, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | Comments (0)

Guest Column: Speech to the Rockford School Board

Editor’s note: The following comments were to be given during the public comments period of the Nov. 9 Rockford Board
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November 10, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 5 Comments

Guest Column: Why I am pro-gun

By Rep. Jim Sacia “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” we’ve all heard or seen the phrase. Several months ago,
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November 10, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 1 Comment

Guest Column: Taxpayers, did you know?

By Jane Hayes and Mary Jo Powers Notice—A Taxpayer Rally will be held at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the
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November 3, 2010 | Also published in Guest Column | 12 Comments


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