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)

Left Justified: Honoring the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary

By Stanley Campbell Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps to encourage young Americans to help the world.
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 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

Left Justified: We are losing the war

By Stanley Campbell I think we lost it. Not the war against terror—we never had a chance. And the drug war
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 2 Comments

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 Editorial: Public notice law doesn’t need ‘modernizing’

Editor’s note: The following guest editorial is reprinted from The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., with permission granted through the
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Editorials | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Rockford’s civil rights movement

By Stanley Campbell Rockford is not known for leading any crusades for civil rights. Nay, I would say Rockford is still
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

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)

Left Justified: Schools are governed by law

By Stanley Campbell I think the biggest shock for teachers came when police were removed from the schools, and rowdy students
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 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: Rich City, Poor City

By Eric Howanietz Free-lance Writer Rockford is poor, and poor in the sense that it is cheap to live here, but nothing
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary | 1 Comment

Outside In: The struggle of Rockford’s majority

By Joe McGehee Staff Writer Having lived and worked on Rockford’s east and west sides over the past four years has allowed
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary | 2 Comments

Left Justified: Chocolate temptations

By Stanley Campbell Valentine’s Day elicits thoughts of love, letters, fine food and romantic evenings. And chocolate! Deep, dark, rich, sweet
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

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)

Left Justified: The Founding of Rockford, a play

By Stanley Campbell I’ve written the following skit for a future legal (or not) Follies. I hope someday it will be
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | 2 Comments

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

Left Justified: What happened? No vote on a sure bet

By Stanley Campbell We thank god that no vote was taken on Illinois Senate Bill 737, the massive expansion of gambling
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January 26, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Murder: How little it takes to erase so much

By Stanley Campbell I do not want to talk about the outrageous shooting of a moderate Democrat Congresswoman in Arizona. Seems
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January 19, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | 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

Editorial: ‘CAPITALIZE’—Give ‘Buy Local’ a good ‘kick off’

By Frank Schier Editor & Publisher It’s time to for the “kick off” of the Super Bowl of economics—the “Buy Local” movement.
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Editorials | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Rockford should remember Edsel Ammons

By Stanley Campbell A civil rights leader from Rockford in the 1980s just died, I am sorry to report. Bishop Edsel A.
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

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

Left Justified: A prayer for the new year

By Stanley Campbell Let’s start the new year with a prayer. Here’s one I said before the Severson Dells fund-raising breakfast
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January 5, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

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

Left Justified: Things I’d like to do in 2011

By Stanley Campbell These are some of the things I would like to do next year. These are NOT resolutions; more
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December 29, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

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)

Left Justified: How to win the war in Afghanistan

By Stanley Campbell You can’t win the war in Afghanistan. Now, before you turn away, please hear me out. I thought it was
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December 22, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: The real war on Christmas—updated

By Stanley Campbell “The little baby Jesus don’t like killing, no matter what the reason for,” paraphrased from “Your Flag Decal
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December 15, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

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)


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