The shooter in Apalachee High School had an “AR-platform-style weapon,” the popular semi-automatic gun all-too-widely available in the U.S., with hundreds of variations flooding the multi-billion dollar gun market. By Amy Goodman andDenis Moynihan School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless[Read More…]
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“President Biden took a well-deserved victory lap,” Rep. Kelly Says of #SOTU
Congresswoman Robin Kelly lauded President Biden for taking a “well-deserved victory lap” during his State of the Union Address [#SOTU].
Ahead of State of the Union, Here Are Four Big Actions the Biden-Harris Administration Can Act on This Year to Improve LGBTQ+ Equality
The Human Rights Campaign is highlighting four rulemaking actions the Biden-Harris administration can take to advance LGBTQ+ equality.
Let me say it once again. The problem is…
Area media have been reporting over the last several days regarding a Cook County study exemptions in property taxes in the South Suburbs.
Go Placidly: (Still) In Search Of the Beloved Community
It’s tough, in this bleak time, to keep faith with Martin Luther King’s lofty vision of equality forged through non-violence. Still, we try.
Stop the Property Tax Blame Game: Fairness for All in Park Forest
Commentary By Gary KopycinskiEditor & Publisher – ENEWSPF The property tax blame game has started again. I have heard the arguments begin to foment again. The song of the blame game is the same. Blame village staff for the small business base in Park Forest. We are not business-friendly, right?[Read More…]
‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, University of Michigan I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full” dropped. I have vivid memories of the bass-laden track booming out of car stereos and hearing it on Black radio, like Kiss FM’s top eight at 8 p.m. countdown. On the[Read More…]
A Brief History of Colorful Presidential Relatives, From Alice Roosevelt to Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges as part of a recently announced deal with the Justice Department.
Property Taxes and the Case for Housing Cooperatives
By John A. Ostenburg Occasionally, someone will come up with the idea that the housing cooperatives in Park Forest are not paying their fair share of property taxes. Let me tell you why that’s a fallacious argument. First, a little background on what housing cooperatives are, how they came about[Read More…]
One Year After the Fall of Roe v. Wade, Abortion Care Has Become a Patchwork of Confusing State Laws That Deepen Existing Inequalities
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling struck down the constitutional right to abortion, society has been seeing the results of a post-Roe world.
