All Posts Tagged With: "Russell Johnson"

Letter: More vigilance is needed

We need to be more vigilant as to what is happening around us.

April 5th, 2012 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Too late to complain about increasing highway tolls

During the next few weeks, newspaper editors and talk show hosts will be inundated with protests for having to pay the new high toll/tax to use Illinois’ highways.

January 5th, 2012 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Tollway drivers should stand together

For over 50 years, we have had opportunities to get rid of having to pay a toll/tax to use Illinois highways, but we didn’t take action.

September 1st, 2011 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Privatizing tollway not the answer

Gov. Quinn’s announcement of teaming up with Indiana to build a new toll/tax highway in Illinois is unconscionable.

July 2nd, 2010 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Reflections on a protest

As I was sitting in my car watching the protesters at the Aurora’s Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, I was thinking to myself how hard it must be for a young woman to decide to seek information or even have to decide to have an abortion.

April 8th, 2010 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Stop talk of privatizing tollway system

Recently there has been some talk of our state legislators now wanting to privatize Illinois’ tollway system so that they can pay off the state’s debt.

February 18th, 2010 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Tollway system is embarrassment

I don’t know if I should admire or feel sorry for Reps. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) and David Reis (R-Willow Hill) when they say that they are co-sponsoring legislation that would require the toll authority to send violation notices out within 30 days.

April 9th, 2009 | | Comments Off | Continued

Letter: Let’s get rid of Illinois tollways

As long as we are talking about raising the gas tax at the fuel pump, let’s pay a few cents more and get rid of the toll booths on Illinois’ highways. I have found that the Illinois Tollway Authority is taking us for a ride on what they think is their highway.

February 19th, 2009 | | Comments Off | Continued

Don’t just get rid of the governor, get rid of the tollway

Pat Quinn, once he becomes governor, should not only remove Rod Blagojevich’s name from Illinois’ tollway roads, but he should remove the tollbooths as well.

January 30th, 2009 | | Comments Off | Continued