Columns
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White privilege, black lives and the lessons of a protestJul 19, 2020 1:00 am - Recently, I participated in a protest in Mount Greenwood, Illinois. Black, brown and white people marched in the street, shouting "Black Lives Matter" and "George Floyd"...
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White privilege, black lives and the lessons of a protestJul 18, 2020 3:00 pm - Recently, I participated in a protest in Mount Greenwood, Illinois. Black, brown and white people marched in the street, shouting "Black Lives Matter" and "George Floyd"...
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Residents' generator may disturb neighborsJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - Q: A resident in our detached single-family home homeowners' association submitted a request to install a natural gas-powered generator on his lot. It would supply power...
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Coronavirus pandemic stress made me 'ghost' my boss. What do I do for a reference?Jul 18, 2020 6:00 am - Q: I screwed up at my last job. We were working from home because of coronavirus and I was unable to adjust. Also, I had a mild freakout due to personal issues. In a mom...
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Swedish pancakes and healthy memory associationsJul 18, 2020 6:00 am - Somehow I got it in my mind to make Swedish pancakes. I made them for myself two days in a row. They are very thin and fry quickly. Usually they are made rather small in...
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Zalusky: Spiders, Naps, Buckeyes - or Crybabies?Jul 18, 2020 1:00 am - Now that the Washington football franchise is expunging its controversial sobriquet, it won't be long before Cleveland's baseball team follows suit. Already, the ballclu...
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Grammar Moses: If I were a Pip, that would be a pip!Jul 18, 2020 1:00 am - In response to last weekend's column on advertising typos, astute reader and consumer Trey Higgins sent me another. For fear of offending the pizza gods - and the purvey...
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U-46 equity leader says students need to see themselves in their educatorsJul 18, 2020 1:00 am - YouTube #8220;If I am only seeing African Americans or Latinx individuals serving my food or cleaning the classroom, that hits you,#8221; Lance said. Lance says there's...
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Facts Matter: Daily death comparison uses out-of-date COVID-19 dataJul 18, 2020 1:00 am - A meme circulating on social media this month falsely claims a small number of daily deaths stem from the coronavirus compared to that of deaths from other diseases, acc...
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Constable: White author learned early how Black lives matterJul 18, 2020 1:00 am - As a white girl growing up in Arlington Heights in the 1950s and '60s, Patricia Hruby Powell was taught that Black Lives Matter long before that concept became a movemen...