To the Editor: llinois jobs being lost because of tax hike

The increase in the Illinois personal income tax and corporate tax is having a negative impact on every individual, family
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April 6, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Boone County Habitat marks Earth Day with reminder to donate vehicles

Earth Day is April 22 Boone County Habitat for Humanity is urging everyone to celebrate Earth Day by donating vehicles
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April 6, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Thanks to Phil Roehrig for education

I would like to make the Jewish community of Rockford aware of the efforts of one man, Phil Roehrig, who
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April 6, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Rockford needs our Post Office —don’t send it to Carol Stream

Here we go again with the Post Office and their consolidations and feasibility studies. But now it is outsourcing mail
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Revised opinion on Morrissey and Sheffield

Re: “Mayor Morrissey serves the Kool-Aid” by David Stocker, I am a former Rockford resident who never had much of
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

To the Editor: Current school system does not meet students’ needs

I am a candidate for the Rockford School Board Sub-District G. I am running for School Board because I am
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Vote for John LaMendola

John LaMendola is a candidate for commissioner on the South Beloit city council. I have known John for 12 years.
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Vote for Jim Tegtmeyer for Mayor of Oregon, Ill.

I write this letter in support of Jim Tegtmeyer for mayor of Oregon. As most of you know, Terrace View Boulevard
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Belvidere/Boone County Food Pantry requests donations

Dear Area Businesses: April 9, 2011, the Belvidere/Boone County Food Pantry will hold its yearly fund-raiser, which includes a live auction
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Help clean up when you’re out walking

This is a good time to search for trash and litter in our parks and along our streets and roads.
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Working American middle class are sold down river

Whatever happened to the phrase “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”? Also, liberty and justice for all—along with government by
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March 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 2 Comments

To the Editor: State budget cuts will force many people with disabilities to live in institutions

I am writing on behalf of 11,500 Illinois citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who are languishing on waiting
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March 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Criminals say, ‘Thank you, Lisa Madigan!’

You may remember me from a letter I wrote last December, asking all you good folks to vote for absolute
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March 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Releasing FOID owners’ names imperils citizens’ safety

Recently, my office has received calls and e-mails from my constituents who are concerned about two recent issues related to
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March 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

To the Editor: Preserve capitalism

Since the November election, our liberal leaders have chosen to ignore the will of the voters. Although they say differently,
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March 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Hats off to Harlem School District!

Feb. 22 was an evening to remember at Harlem High School. It was their Harlem Music Boosters program. When we arrived,
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Company outsourcing does not promote ‘buy local’

Goodbye to the Rockford Register Star. I try to buy local, and if a company outsources, it is no longer
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 2 Comments

State reducing funding for conservation

Hello, Everyone, I am sending you this and asking for your support in providing adequate funding to Soil and Water Conservation
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Sweeny cheers Wisconsin runaways

In Chuck Sweeny’s column of Feb. 20, in the Rockford Register Star, he cheers the Wisconsin Democrat legislators who, acting
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 7 Comments

Kucinich has a bill to address the budget

Feb. 13, Speaker John Boehner addressed a letter to President Obama, “[T]o support the creation of private-sector jobs, immediate action
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 2 Comments

District 205 communications chief shares protocol regarding media being allowed on school grounds

Some news organizations have taken issue with protocol requiring approval to enter a school. Approval is required for a variety
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Sheffield’s vitriol vs. Hammatt’s restraint

I watched the Feb. 22nd Board of Education meeting and was amazed at Dr. Sheffield’s comments. At the beginning of
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

Remembering Frank Ware—a champion for mental health issues

The city of Rockford, our great nation, and the entire world has just suffered the tremendous loss of yet another
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Response to Mr. George L. Schrum: Entitlements and deficits

Mr. Schrum: Don’t you want the best doctor in the world to be there when you need him? If you do,
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Support Tegtmeyer for Mayor of Oregon

I am proud to say I was raised in Oregon. I lived in Oregon for 31 years. I have family
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

A poem: Rockford Repurposed

Editor’s note: The following poem is being presented as a Letter to the Editor. Rockford Repurposed Think it possible a town could
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Obama has ruined the capitalist society—what’s left of it

This letter is in response to a Letter to the Editor “Corrupt society works against the public” by Jewel Ferguson. You
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

The enormous betrayal

I know that peace can be considered a good thing. But when did any peace treaty last for very long?
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Register Star’s columnist misrepresented school statistics

I could, if allowed (her solicitations for reader response are a joke), rebut everything Kris Kieper pontificates in the Register
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

More praise for WTPB-LP

John Russell Ghrist recently wrote stating that local radio station WTPB-LP 99.3 should receive a RAMI for all the work
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

The political circus is coming

Oh, no, not again! At the end of next year, November 2012, the Republicans and Democrats will be holding their
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Enforce current immigration laws

The immigration reform most needed now in our nation is rigorous enforcement of current laws. For decades, crooked employers have
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

Educational gold mine

Concordia Lutheran School in Machesney Park has one of the greatest reputations in the area for educational excellence. This small
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Protect parents and children

The family is the foundation of American society. A threat to families is now looming over the United States. It
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

Re: Letter of Michael Cannariato/Reload Fox/Jan. 12-18, 2011

As a Hispanic patriot, I resent the letter written by the above-mentioned person, Michael Cannariato. Our family has had sons in
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

To the Editor: Stop killing our children!

Thirty-eight years ago, our judicial government usurped God’s law, “You shall not kill,” by making Roe vs. Wade legal to
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Keep Jackson School open

Before the decision to close any schools is made, I’d like to suggest why Jackson School should remain open: → As the
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: FBI still assaults nonviolent leaders like Dr. King

As we remember Martin Luther King Jr., we should also remember who failed to protect him from assassination on April
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Small business economic backbone of rural Illinois

For Illinois’ rural cities and small towns to contribute fully to the nation’s economic recovery, we must enable small, main
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February 16, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Thanks to those who supported One for Books campaign

On behalf of Dennis Early Childhood’s PTO, I want to express deep gratitude to everyone who donated money for our
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Value judgments no longer in force

Modern man hasn’t so much technologically as philosophically engineered himself into a corner. That’s the thrust of a 1954 essay
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Corrupt society works against the public

We are living in a corrupt capitalist society, and the American public fatties refuse to recognize it. The largest contributors
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Re: Titan Tire and USW

I responded to a commentary by Stanley Campbell (Sept. 1-7, 2010) about utopia and unions in this world. The Titan
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Bicentennial of the Fight for Freedom

This year is 200 since a very brave, noble but unsuccessful fight for our freedom took place here in the
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Thanks to Alderwoman Venita Hervey

Praise for my Alderwoman Venita Hervey. Jan. 4, as I was walking to pick up my daughter from her bus
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)

To the Editor: Thanks, Chuck Sweeny, we’ll follow your lead

In Sunday’s Register Star, Chuck Sweeny bemoans the REA’s “Mercedes-Benz” contract; he’s either unaware or disingenuous about how they arrived
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 4 Comments

To the Editor: Entitlements and deficits

Today as I watched [former] Senators [Alan K.] Simpson [R-Wyo.] and [Erskine] Bowles [D-N.C.] trying to undermine Social Security and
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

To the Editor: Community is scarred by mega-dairy battle

The 2nd District Appellate Court in Elgin issued its ruling on Dec. 22, 2010, regarding the Traditions Dairy project in
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 1 Comment

To the Editor: Re: Stanley Campbell’s column of Dec. 22-28, 2010

You can’t win the war in Afghanistan. AND WHY NOT, MR. CAMPBELL? If it wasn’t for liberal Demon-crats like you and
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | 2 Comments

To the Editor: CASA offers training class and bowl-a-thon

In a scene from The Blind Side, Michael informs the mom—who has just given him his own room in the
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January 26, 2011 | Also published in Letters to the Editor | Comments (0)


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