Opinion

Housing crisis intensifies in Windy City

February 7, 2003

CHICAGO – Mayor Richard M. Daley announced a new 10-year Plan to End Homelessness. The plan “focuses on moving the homeless into permanent housing as rapidly as possible, and providing additional social services to help resolve...

NOW blasts Bush on Title IX

February 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

Washington – “In the best Orwellian tradition, the Bush administration is trying to convince us that left is right, up is down, war is peace and that its so-called Commission on Opportunity in Athletics actually cares...

Systemic discrimination in home ownership

February 7, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

Home ownership is often regarded as the key to the American dream, including economic security, accumulating wealth and passing wealth on to the next generation. This is shown by the latest Survey of Consumer Finances, published...

Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2002

January 23, 2003

For more than a decade now, the P.U.-litzer Prizes have gone to some of America’s stinkiest media performances each year. The competition was fierce as ever in 2002. Many journalistic pieces of work deserved recognition. Only...

An Iraq war will cost us more than blood

January 23, 2003

As the Bush administration prepares for war in Iraq, the American people should demand a complete assessment of the costs of the war-which go beyond potential military and civilian casualties. As President Dwight Eisenhower famously noted,...