My childhood hometown paper eschews lesser issues like judicial confirmations, foreign policy, and even baseball and steroids to address this topic of paramount importance on its Opinion page:

Find alternate route for hog trucks

ABRAHAM LINCOLN is most often associated with the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation or possibly even his dramatic assassination. Few people associate the nation's 16th president with hogs.

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The link between Lincoln and hogs is not just historic. Unfortunately, there could be hogs in Lincoln's future.


ANYONE WHO FREQUENTLY travels west on Jefferson Street past the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum complex knows that this road will carry more than just commuters and tourists. Jefferson also is Illinois 97, which is a state route that ferries, among other things, hog trucks west to a slaughter plant in Beardstown.

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Imagine a nice warm summer morning. A family stands on the corner of Sixth and Jefferson, eager to enter the new museum. They're munching on warm cinnamon rolls they just purchased at Pease's Candy Shop. Up pulls the hog truck. So much for that last bite of cinnamon roll.

It's priceless.