Joe Sims

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joe Sims

• U.S.

  

  House set to vote on economic stimulus package

  January 29, 2009 By Joe Sims

  With over 75,000 layoffs announced earlier in the week, the House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on a $825 billion economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, HR 1. The plan is...

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• Opinion

  

  OPINION: What happened to me on the way to the inauguration

  January 24, 2009 By Joe Sims

  When walking down 34th street to pick up train tickets to the Washington Inauguration on Monday, MLK Day, I heard someone shout out the N word. Looking up it turned out to be a white person...

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• Opinion

  

  Ten best and worst movies I saw and didn’t see in 2008

  January 7, 2009 By Joe Sims

  Here are my impressions of the great and not-so-great films of 2008. (There are still a lot I've got to see).

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• PrintEditions

  

  Lawmakers oppose Iraq war

  September 6, 2002 By Joe Sims

  CHICAGO – With the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon us, lawmakers are speaking out against the Bush-Cheney plan to invade Iraq in the name of the “war on terrorism.”

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