Through my job, I take students on campus visits regularly to state universities and private colleges in Illinois.… MORE
Category Archives: Opinion
WJBC Forum: The Hastert Rule
A few days ago I posted on my Facebook account that the Hastert Rule, used by House Republicans to limit floor votes on certain bills, must be eliminated.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Local government units
More elections are held in the United States more often for more positions than any other nation in the world.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Quality of life is worth the taxes
On occasional mornings, just as dawn is breaking, I’ll often head over to the Constitution Trail and pedal for six or eight miles for my morning wake-up.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Facebook
In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard roommates, launched a social networking site now known as Facebook.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Climate change
I was just thinking about how cool this past summer has been.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Physical time
Annual Physical Time…… MORE
WJBC Forum: Tuition to pay and casinos to visit
By Michael J. Whelan With those words memorialized in her own e-mail to one of her alleged co-conspirators, the (former) Superintendent of the Chicago Public School system pleaded guilty to a variety of Federal law violations and is now awaiting sentencing in Chicago. While we here in Central Illinois are proud to say we don’t…… MORE
WJBC Forum: Don’t blame the Constitution
The Illinois Constitution has come in for criticism in the endless discussion about state and local pension problems.… MORE
WJBC Forum: These newfangled technologies
You know when somebody you know is binge-watching one of your favorite old TV shows?… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…