Reuse the old Jones building

Letter to the editor

05/02/2012

I got involved in education issues for selfish reasons. We faced the same difficult decision every family does. Do we stay or go to the suburbs? If we stay, do we pay tuition at age three to get a private spot or roll the dice on a good public school? We were lucky. Our child tested well, was accepted at Skinner Classical and won the lottery at Andrew Jackson.
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Juicy clarifications on Meatless Mondays

Letter to the editor

05/02/2012

It was great to read Bonnie McGrath’s coverage of our Meatless Mondays in May (MMM!) community campaign. She is right — it is a campaign to raise awareness about the environmental benefits of eating less meat. Most of us don’t know that eating less meat ranks in the top 3 things we can do to help mitigate climate change; it’s better for the environment than green habits most of us already have, like recycling. Author Michael Pollan says that if all Americans went meatless once a week it “would be the equivalent of taking 20 million mid-size sedans off the road.”
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Give Harpo back to Chicago

Letter to the editor

04/04/2012

Now that the Rosie Show is cancelled, the big question is what will happen to the Harpo facilities? Recently, West Loop realtor Scott Maesel suggested [Crain’s, March 7, 2012] that the studio, because of its size, would likely be sold to a grocery store or a health club. Since the upscale grocer Mariano’s is coming to the Gateway Project at Halsted and Madison and a Dominick’s is already at Halsted and Washington, it is unlikely that another large grocer would be interested in moving into the Harpo studios. Certainly a health club is possible, though we already have the West Loop Athletic Club a block away and from my perspective it never seems overly crowded.
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Building a better school day

Letter to the editor

04/04/2012

As CPS plans to implement the longer school day initiative (in the middle of tense negotiations with CTU and other unions for new contracts) it appears they will only lengthen the school day without an education plan. A better school day strategy must be developed and contain the following guiding principles:
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Rejuvenating Republicans' voice

Letter to the editor

03/19/2012

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Feierstein charts new course for 2nd Ward Republicans

Letter to the editor

03/19/2012

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Blue collar workers will bring down Obama

Letter to the editor

03/14/2012

Don't discriminate - hire our veterans

Letter to the editor

02/22/2012

President Barack Obama said on Nov. 7, 2011, “If you can save a life in Afghanistan, you can save a life in an ambulance. If you can oversee millions of dollars of assets in Iraq, you can help a business balance its books here at home.”
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Cancer survivors lose out in remap

02/01/2012

Every single member of every minority group in this city has been playing the race card for years. Sometimes it is played effectively, other times not. The race card was played again in the remap process.
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Working together to improve the South Loop

02/01/2012

I was pleased to speak recently with 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti and am glad to hear he remains committed to improving the infrastructure of the South Loop. Because our wards are so close to one another, Bob and I have had the opportunity to work together since 2007 on many of these projects.
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