Thursday, July 07, 2022

I GREW UP IN HIGHLAND PARK

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by Tricia Knoll Highland Park IL Fourth of July parade, circa 1965. Twenty-nine spaces in the US carry this name. When the news broke, I won...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

REWIND

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by Laura Rodley If I write this poem will you breathe again? Will the bullet eject itself from your heart, close the hole where the blood pu...
Tuesday, July 05, 2022

THE WIND SPEAKS

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by Laurie Kuntz “I have lost my name and I have lost my reputation.”  -Ruby Freeman The wind speaks your name and carries it into crevices w...

EVIDENCE

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by Bruce Bennett Glowingly, knowingly   Cassidy Hutchinson   Answers the questions   Revealing it all:     Rudy and Proud Boys   And weapons...
Monday, July 04, 2022

THIRTEEN DAYS ON “THE NRA CIVIL RIGHTS CALENDAR”

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by Gilbert Allen Blood On Their Hands _ Anti-NRA T-Shirt by Sarana Mehra January 1 If the world seems cold to you, perhaps you’ve already fi...

A PERILOUS YEAR

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by Tom Bauer What fireworks are good enough on any nation’s holiday? What illumination is light enough? The light of sweet relief is the lig...

7.4.22

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by Don Brunnquell Terrified paradegoers fled the Highland Park, Ill., Fourth of July event after shots were fired Monday. At least six peopl...

FREEDOM ON FIRE

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by Emily Jo Scalzo Let the flag fly inverted on our  so-called Independence Day, a message from the newly chained: we cannot abide these tre...

THE APPROPRIATED FLAG

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by William Aarnes                         a final dispatch from Clemson, South Carolina, June 27, 2022    Fifteen or so white men gather   o...

JULY

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by David Radavich Can we be independent  together?  It is   a contradiction devoutly to be wished.   Parades, floats, marching  bands, twirl...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

ALL-AMERICAN CANAL

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by D. Seth Horton All-American Canal seen here in Imperial County, California, January 24, 2022. Photo: Matthew Bowler to accompany “Officia...

IN DREAMS, DEATH

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by Dick Altman The death toll of migrants who died after they were abandoned in the back of a tractor-trailer that was discovered Monday in ...
Saturday, July 02, 2022

WHAT TO TELL CHILDREN WHEN ALL THE NEWS IS SCARY

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by Diane Dolphin “With war in Ukraine, editors help kids cope with scary news.” — News Decoder , February 25, 2022 We have failed you, utter...
Friday, July 01, 2022

FOOTBALL GODS ABOUND

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by Gary Lark The Supreme Court said Monday that a Washington state school district violated the First Amendment rights of a high school foot...