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Burroughs: Options available now for affordable healthcare

 

What do we mean when we say something is a basic human right? We mean that some rights are simply universal; they are nonnegotiable.


Editorial Cartoon: May 22, 2013

Editorial cartoon about the IRS targeting politically conservative groups. 


Chumbly: These days he prefers to forgive rather than be strident

In George Eliot’s novel, “The Mill on the Floss,” there’s an exchange in which Maggie, the story’s main character, tells her brother Tom, “It’s a sin to be hard.”

She said this because of how Tom typically treated her when she did something wrong — like acting selfishly or going on long walks with a man her family disapproved of.


Poremba: Many thought column was about them

 

A column of mine appeared in last week’s Press about parent abuse. I received several calls from grandparents and parents exclaiming as I said. “Not my kid; no that would never happen!”, and they believed the column was about them.

To make a long story short, one of the grandmothers said it made her granddaughter look like a spoiled brat.


Letters to the Editor: May 22, 2013

Walker has been positive throughout

To the editor:

To Peggy Scott, why do you even have an opinion about RTHS’s prom king. You’re from Fisher. Mr. Tatar, you used to have students that looked up to you as a role model, but I’m not so sure now. 


Eby: ‘Alibis’ has its moments, but not enough of them

The Rantoul Theatre Group opens its 2013 season with a murder mystery. 

The graphic on the cover of the playbill for this production could make audience members think it’s a Sherlock Holmes mystery, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But the play is far from that sophisticated type of mystery, and far from that masterful style of writing. 


Editorial Cartoon: May 15, 2013

Editorial Cartoon by Frank Dutton. 


Letters to the Editor: May 15, 2013

Photo of prom ‘king’ was very disturbing

To the editor:

I am writing this response to a picture in the Rantoul Press that was very disturbing to me. The Rantoul High prom.

What is going on? Prom is usually about picking a queen and king, not two queens.

I found that disgusting.


Poremba: It’s not just children who are abused

 

We hear so much about child abuse on a daily basis, and as horrible as it is, it still goes on.

Have any of you heard about parent abuse?

That goes on as well, so what can be done?


Visel: Kids reading program starts

An exciting event is going to happen tomorrow at Rantoul Public Library.

That’s right. Tomorrow, Thursday, May 16, the children’s summer reading program kicks off with a fun-filled open house. From 3 to 5 p.m., you will have the opportunity to register your child to participate in Have Book Will Travel.