Editors Roundtable: Solution to gun violence?
With another mass shooting this week, the gun control debate is back in the fore. What is the solution to reducing gun violence? Find a way to keep guns from the untrustworthyIn a guest opinion for the...
View ArticleEditors Roundtable: Use utility tax for Armory upgrade?
Should the city use the utility tax money to renovate The Armory?
View ArticleEditorial: The verdict on Benghazi
The eighth investigation of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi ended like all the many investigations targeting Hillary Clinton over more than two decades. Millions in taxpayer dollars...
View ArticleEditorial: Break Congress’ gridlock on guns
In the middle of the last century, as Americans took to the highway in record numbers, the statistics on lives lost in auto accidents set records as well. By 1972, more than 54,000 people were killed...
View ArticleEditorial: Only the facts? – FBI findings leave additional questions
"Only facts matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way," was the way in which FBI Director James Comey wrapped up his extraordinary statement accusing Hillary...
View ArticleEditors Roundtable: How do we learn, heal after shootings?
How can the United States learn, grow and heal from the recent shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Falcon Heights, Minnesota; and Dallas?
View ArticleEditorial: Made for each other
"I don't wanna kill you! What would I do without you? No, no, no. You you complete me!"— The Joker to Batman in the movie "The Dark Knight."They need each other, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump....
View ArticleEditors Roundtable: What's a big takeaway from the RNC?
What's one of the biggest takeaways from the GOP Convention? Is Trump's trade stance sea change?The GOP convention delivered plenty of interesting topics. One of the most compelling is nominee Donald...
View ArticleEditor's Notebook: Newsroom in staffing transition
The Register-Mail is about to experience a seismic shift with a pair of key personnel departures.
View ArticleEditors Roundtable: Takeaways from Democratic National Convention
What's your takeaway from the Democratic National Convention?
View ArticleEditorial: Women’s soccer in hunt for gold
The U.S. Women's Soccer Team, winners of the World Cup in Canada only last year but coming off some shaky play that ended in a 2-2 tie in the final match of group play in the Olympics this year, enters...
View ArticleEditors Roundtable: Relevance of Olympic games
What is the relevance of the Olympic Games? Olympics provide measure of unityJust like the first recorded Olympics in 776 BC, physical fitness and mental discipline are still on display in the ongoing...
View ArticleEditorial: Red line crossings
Lost amid the past week's hoopla over serial revelations concerning Hillary Clinton's emails and her foundation and Donald Trump's immigration positionings was yet another humiliating indication of the...
View ArticleEditorial: A quarterback’s kneeling protest
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick isn't the first athlete to make a political protest when the spotlight is on him. John Carlos and Tommie Smith famously raised a black power salute as they received their...
View ArticleEditorial: How healthy are the candidates?
Questioning your opponent's health is one of the oldest tricks in the political playbook. Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack was used against him in 1956. Four years later, the John F. Kennedy campaign...
View ArticleEditor's Notebook: R-M not endorsing for Nov. 8 election
The Register-Mail will not endorse candidates this political season. While we believe newspaper endorsements have value to readers, especially with regard to local races, we simply don’t have the...
View ArticleEditor's Notebook: Top 10 most viewed stories of 2016
It was an eventful year with a tumultuous election, deadly violence in the world and at home and loads of celebrities dying. Here in Galesburg we had plenty to report on with school district cuts,...
View ArticleRegister-Mail Editorial: Slow down on school cuts
Superintendent Ralph Grimm is 100 percent correct when he says District 205 cannot continue to deficit spend. The school district has depended on reserves for nine out of the past 12 years, and the...
View ArticleEditor's Notebook: R-M planning endorsements
The Register-Mail Editorial Board is busy meeting with candidates running for election April 4.We will issue endorsements in contested races for Galesburg mayor and Ward 6 alderman, treasurer and...
View ArticleEditor's Note: Deadline for election letters March 29
The Register-Mail's Editorial Board has interviewed candidates in several races and will begin endorsing candidates Sunday.The schedule is as follows:• Sunday, Galesburg mayoral endorsement• Monday,...
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