"Shuffling non-critical patients back and forth in a ”hub formation” is not a blessing," Peg Reagan, a Citizens for Healthcare in Ottawa member, writes in a letter to the editor.


Bureau County Sheriff Jim Reed went to the Bureau County Board with a proposal suggesting filling the county jail with inmates from the infamous Cook County Jail in Chicago. 





Our County Board has had several meetings discussing immigration. What I have heard from my constituents and personally believe is that in a rural area, we do not have the resources to process and take in a mass influx of asylum-seekers.