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Redo the SLS working group

05/19/2010

We are writing to protest the manner in which the South Loop Working Committee members were chosen. We do not believe it was a fair or transparent process, nor did it follow the guidelines you set out in advance.

Vote in LSC elections

04/14/2010

On April 21, local school council elections will take place at our city’s elementary schools and on April 22 at our high schools. LSC elections typically have an extremely low turnout. LSCs, however, spend taxpayer dollars and how wisely they spend those dollars will have a direct impact on every resident’s pocketbook.
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Pick it up

04/14/2010

Having recently read some online discussions about how to get us to pick up the trash we encounter while walking too and fro, I wondered — why we don’t pick up the trash we see every day.
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Journal off base in editorial

03/24/2010

I said it before too: no increase in taxes (“Said it before, March 11). I have been struggling to find steady employment since late 2007. I’ve been fortunate to find contract positions and freelance work, but it’s been a struggle.

Council's education responsibility

03/17/2010

Alderman Dowell’s editorial (“Stay vigilant on schools,” March 4) is at best disingenuous and, at worst, politically self serving. Her comments are nothing more than “a slight of hand trick” to fool her constituents into believing that she is representing and advocating their best interest.
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