For the Chicago White Sox, vice president and general manager Rick Hahn and manager Robin Ventura should both be fired. It’s a disgrace how they’re running the baseball team. They’re running it down. They should both be fired. Bring in some high school kids for the bullpen. They can do a lot better than what you have. It’s disgusting. They get paid millions and millions and millions of dollars and can’t find the plate.
I really commend the people out at Oak Forest Health Center — Dr. Terry Mason, chief operating officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health, and Dr. John Jay Shannon, chief executive officer of Cook County Health & Hospitals System, for doing the gardening out there, starting the garden and having those free vegetables for the poorest people in our southwest suburbs. At least they’re putting their money where their mouth is and helping. It’s a tremendous help with health care to have good nutrition. I think they’re doing a great job and hope they can continue and make it even bigger.
Peggy, Evergreen Park
The independent map vote is another Republican phony deal. They aren’t talking about redistricting in states they have gerrymandered to the max. Also, they’re not talking about the voter suppression tricks they pull. In Wisconsin, you have to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles if you don’t have a car to get a voter identification picture. But, of course, they closed down the DMVs in the minority areas. In order to get to one, it’s hard. We should have fair votes. There’s no two ways about it. The problem is the only ones fighting to get things changed are the Republicans that are only getting them to change to their advantage, not to the advantage of the actual voters.
Has anybody out there read any or all of the Republican Party’s platform for this year? It’s astonishing some of the things that they are promoting. You’d think you were in the Middle Ages, if not even the Dark Ages. For instance, they want Christianity to be named the national religion. Really? Secondly, they want Bible study taught in public classrooms. Are you kidding? What do the Muslim, Hindu and atheist students do? Is this political party for real? Do they realize this is the 21st century? I am just aghast.
Rick, Monee
People that deliver mail to me in a truck don’t even stop sometimes. I had mail sticking outside the box at an apartment building. Across the street they deliver mail while walking. Take the trucks away. Do personal service. They’re supposed to take care of customers, not themselves. One’s got a mail route across the street. On one side of the street they walk the route and deliver. On the east side of the street, put mail on the outside of the box and they don’t stop by. A government job’s not easy, but you get paid for it. The mailbox is two blocks away. I can’t walk that far. It’s exasperating to see the mail truck and nothing happens.
On a recent morning, I saw my neighbor outside and I told my neighbor, “It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?” Now, am I going to be charged with plagiarism like Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, was when she gave her speech? I’m sure somebody else in this world said, “It’s a beautiful day” before I did.
Orland Park continues to thrive. Frankfort is getting a movie theater. Buildings and projects are going up all around us. Tinley can’t decide on a sports complex or anything else for that matter. How many more studies, reports and surveys will Tinley do before they finally do something? Someone, please make a decision, but may it not be that monstrosity of a building you want to put in the middle of downtown. It will look ridiculous. It feels as if everyone around us is moving on with exciting and well-suited growth except us.
Tinley Park
One recent contributor didn’t like that the Rio Olympics coverage isn’t showing the “Christ the Redeemer” statue which overlooks the city. The Olympics is an athletic tournament, not a tourist agency. If you want to see the statue, then you should go to Rio and sign up for a sightseeing tour.
Could someone please explain to me how Donald Trump has the overwhelming support among evangelical Christians that he currently enjoys. As if his lies, his iniquitous deeds and his mouth weren’t enough to turn off folks of any morality/religion, his lack of compassion and inability to forgive should be. Now, he says that becoming president will be the only way for him to get into heaven. As every evangelical Christian should know, becoming president is not the path to heaven, and to say so just confirms the fact that he knows little about Christianity. Why should anyone be surprised?
Denny, Orland Park
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