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To the editor, I was listening to a news interview a few days ago. The interviewee remarked that he was surprised that there hadn’t been enough OUTRAGE about something our president or his administration had done. I was stunned. I have been in a perpetual state of OUTRAGE for months. Pick ...
To the editor: My Fellow Americans: Whether or not you agree that abortion should be legalized; whether or not you agree that Jews will replace you; whether or not you agree that windmills cause cancer or that climate change is a hoax or that Chicago is a war zone; whether or not you voted ...
To the editor: Parks and Wrecks has hatched a plot in secret, then sprung it on the public just days before the election for city commissioners. As Church Lady said on “Saturday Might Live,” “How conveeeeeeenient!” Yet again the wealthier west side will have access to Rock Chalk park, ...
To the editor: If you, like me, are talking with others about the City Commission and school board candidates, let’s make those conversations factual. At a benefit for Van Go I heard that an individual associated with a neighborhood “excluded the only currently serving City Commission ...
To the editor: The “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed in July over the objections of most Democratic legislators, was championed by their Republican colleagues. The bill was careful to include generous tax breaks for huge corporations and the wealthy, while it paid less attention to the ...
To the editor: I saw the opened bag of chips before I heard her voice. As the woman lifted her half gallon of milk onto Just Food’s checkout table where I volunteer every Friday, she must have felt as if she’d been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. She said, “I am sorry. I am just ...