Keep eye on teens, even innocent-looking ones
Don’t fall for the excuses that your kids are too good to use or abuse alcohol, drugs and cigarettes or that they know it’s bad for them or all the other lines they give when you try to talk to them about these things.

Question statistics on children killed by guns
Sherina Wordlaw's letter about raising the price of bullets to lower gun violence uses flawed logic (YourViews, Nov. 13).

Story of young 'farmer' brought tears of joy
Reading the article ``Farmer at heart'' in the Money section of Monday's Pantagraph, really choked me up and brought tears to my eyes - tears of joy.

Consider showing movies with captions once a week
I am a Bloomington movie fan with hearing loss. Everything I watch at home, I watch with closed captions or English subtitles on a DVD. When I go to the local theaters, I can't understand the dialogue.

Renew licensing law for health inspectors
I am writing this correspondence to alert your readers about my concern as the public health officer for Tazewell County regarding the pending expiration of the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act in Illinois.

Obama: I will carry lessons learned in Illinois
Today, I am ending one journey to begin another. After serving the people of Illinois in the United States Senate - one of the highest honors and privileges of my life - I am stepping down as senator to prepare for the responsibilities I will assume as our nation's next president.

Don't look now, but GOP race for 2012 already under way
Barack Obama hadn't even clinched the 2008 election when a prominent Republican pollster took soundings on his party's 2012 prospects. Neil Newhouse's survey produced a surprising result.