Having access to food through SNAP changed the trajectory of my life.

The article “Public interest vs. private homes” (July 30) presents the views of both sides but is misleading.

A speedy trial is for the benefit of the accused and not the government.

Cook County’s criminal court system stands ready to successfully implement the end of money bond.

If we are going to get results we have never gotten, we have to try doing things differently than we always have.

The overwhelming causes of pilot incapacitation events are foodborne illnesses and laser strikes, none of which are age-related.

There is one political party that promotes the increased use of fossil fuels and more gas and oil pipelines.

This would preserve and strengthen Israeli democracy instead of Israeli society being forced to kowtow to legislative fiat.

Has our political environment been so poisoned by the amateurs masquerading as statesmen that we begrudgingly accept their behavior?

The July 21 editorial raises the important question of how housing in Chicago becomes unaffordable.

As forests throughout the world burn, I am reminded of poet Joyce Kilmer’s words.

Lots of my friends in Tennessee don’t understand why I stay here. So it goes both ways.

Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were wake-up calls, but we do not appear to have fully awakened.

A faster game on TV is fine, but at the ballpark, I’m in no rush.

The concern that Direct File may result in taxpayers overpaying and missing out on valuable tax credits is unfounded.

Many of the original refugees are in the last year of their visas.

Both our individual action and advocacy to Congress will prevent “the new abnormal” of climate change from being our default future.

This country could not care less about young people.

The treatment is not a one-and-done. It is an infusion given every two weeks, and Eisai proposes a yearly cost of $26,500.

I’m appalled by the pain and suffering that has occurred behind the scenes while I have lost myself in the drama of the game.

I can’t speak directly to patronage hiring, but my experiences with the clerk’s office in the past few years suggest terrible inefficiency.

The decision of President Joe Biden’s administration to furnish cluster bombs to Ukraine is disgraceful.

Thank you for the editorial pointing out the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Community gardening is a wholly positive activity, one that I humbly suggest should be on a Park District agenda.

Thinning leaves lots of dry soil and trees open to winds that fan the flames.