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Austrian Man Seeks Former Owner of Rare Automobile From Norris City

January 20, 2021 by Villagers Voice

1969 Chevy Chevelle, sold at auction in Greensboro, NC. Photo provided.

The Villagers’ Voice recently received this email from a young man in Austria:

"My name is Christian or Chris. I'm from Austria, a tiny country in the middle of Europe. Im writing you because maybe you can help me in a long long search and since you are writing for a newspaper, maybe you find my story interesting. First things first, why I’m even writing you? [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Page, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Austria, Chevy Chevelle, Norris City

State Senator Bailey: Illinois Republican Party leadership needs both vision and tradition

January 20, 2021 by Villagers Voice

The Illinois Republican Party is at a crossroads. The selection of our next party chairman will help determine our future.

As I see it we can continue with the status quo of irrelevance in Illinois, or we can strike a new path focused on being the party of working people of all types. For too long we’ve been too focused on the elites and the well-off, but the last four-years showed the Republican Party is the party of hard-working Americans. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Illinois, Republicans

Rich Gurka: George Orwell Would Be Proud

January 14, 2021 by Villagers Voice

This is a column Rich wrote in 2019. We are republishing it in light of current events.

By now, most of you have probably heard that the Chinese government and Google have teamed up to develop a “social credit system” for the individual Chinese citizen. This Social Credit System is expected to be fully operational by 2020. If you do or say anything that the Chinese communist government thinks is unsuitable, you will be assigned “negative” points. 

[Read more...]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor, Rich Gurka Tagged With: 1984, Orwell, social credit

Letter to the Editor: Judge Overstreet Is a Fine Judge

October 23, 2020 by Villagers Voice

By Mike and Valinda Rowe

With all the ugliness we are witnessing in this election cycle, there has been one race that stands out to us.  It is the election of the Illinois Supreme Court Judge in southern IL.  This race has two candidates, Republican David Overstreet and Democrat Judy Cates.  Valinda and I have been intimately involved in several gun rights judicial cases over the years including the cases that did away with the handgun ownership ban in Chicago and the case that ultimately forced the General Assembly to pass concealed carry. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2020 General Election, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Judge Overstreet, November elections

California Blackouts an Example of Consequences of ‘Keep It In the Ground’ Policies

August 27, 2020 by Villagers Voice

By Seth Whitehead

“Keep It In the Ground” activist groups continue to aggressively pressure lawmakers at the state and national level to mandate a rapid transition to 100 percent renewable electricity generation and an all-electric vehicle fleet. Intermittent wind and solar power are the centerpieces of this agenda, while traditional sources of energy such as oil and natural gas would supposedly be phased out completely. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: blackouts, oil industry

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