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Facade of good intentions

A commentary in my local newspaper the other day caught my attention. It concerned a married couple who had chosen some time ago to adopt an autistic child. They knew the child’s biological mother who, for...

What foreign language threat?

The town of Carpentersville, Ill., has passed a resolution declaring English to be its “official language.” This happened in the context of a yearlong battle in which a faction of the town’s government has been trying...

June 30 LETTERS

Hey, Verizon, let the workers decide On June 19, there was a demonstration of about 50 union members in front of the Verizon Wireless building in Tampa, Fla. Verizon has said it does not want its...

Editorial: Watering the Tree of Liberty

The signers of the Declaration of Independence must be turning in their graves this July 4th over the shredding of basic democratic rights by corporate right-wing politicians in Washington. The picture is so bad that thousands,...