In a short period of time my daughter will be getting married.… MORE
Category Archives: Opinion
WJBC Forum: Planned Parenthood
I remember back in high school biology class, the part about reproduction, how a male cell met up with a female cell and they bonded and created an embryo. … MORE
WJBC Forum: The real steel magnolias
I’m sure we all remember this movie about six Southern ladies who stuck together and helped each other, and anyone else they knew, in many different ways.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Disagree versus disagreeable
As I contemplated a topic for today’s forum, I started thinking of what controversial issue I might weigh in on when the enormity of controversial topics began flooding my thoughts.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Fall roller coaster ride
There’s a guy in Oxford, Mississippi who needs a new Cubs t-shirt.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Pamela Sweetwood
This week I was able to see The End of the Tour, the new movie featuring David Foster Wallace the acclaimed author who made Bloomington Normal home.… MORE
WJBC Forum: Staring into the abyss – Command & Control
Occasionally I’ll share a recent book I read on the WJBC Forum, and I’d like to recommend a real life thriller, which might leave you actually frightened, Eric Schlosser’s “Command & Control,” with a subhead, “Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident and the Illusion of Safety.”… MORE
WJBC Forum: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Reminder! September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month!… MORE
WJBC Forum: Explaining “The Donald’s” rise
How does a “compassionate conservative” like myself, explain “The Donald’s” recent rise in the polls after his debacle in the Fox News’ debate?… MORE
WJBC Forum: What are the chances?
Numerous times during my lifetime something happens to me that is against the odds.… 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…