May 2003
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Bush Administration’s Spending Priorities Harmful to Neighborhood Kids

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by Jackie Reid Dettloff, drawing by Michelle Dettloff

Beyond the question of financial sense, I see an ominous trend in this proposal to cut a program which is so beneficial to students and working parents in our community. I see a dramatic decrease in federal spending for social programs at the same time as a dramatic increase in federal spending for our military. It seems that we as a society are being forced to choose between maintaining our quality of life and maintaining our national weapons arsenal.

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When It Hits Close To Home

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by Knowledge Divine Allah

You see (with your mind), this wasn’t some young, street rogue who got offed by the cops for being a criminal; this was a 21-year-old college student home taking a semester off to work, who was gunned down by an overstressed/overworked cop who lost control of himself and went savage.

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Defining Our Assertive Ambivalence

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by James Rovira

The true ignorance of the peace protesters isn’t demonstrated by their opposition and protests before the war began, however. It is fully demonstrated by their continuing demand for the withdrawal of US troops even after the war has ended. The futility and stupidity of this gesture amazes me….

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A Working Class Hero

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by Tom Tolan – Part 5 of 6 in a series.

The counterculture surfaced in Riverwest before anybody coined the term — even before the word “hippie” entered America’s vocabulary. In 1964, a rock-and-roll band called the Shags began to play regularly at O’Brad’s, a basement nightclub on E. Locust Street. The band consisted of four students at the Layton School of Art — long-haired young men whose music was loud and raucous. John Sahli, the group’s first lead guitarist, recalled arriving for the initial performance at O’Brad’s…

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Woodland Pattern Book Center

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by Kevin Flaherty / photos by Tess Reiss

Anne Kingsbury, the soft-spoken co-founder of Woodland Pattern Book Center on Locust Street, exhibits the same traits as many entrepreneurs: passion for what she does and a clarity of vision to hold true to the “company” mission. The mission, though, for Woodland Pattern, isn’t selling the most books at the greatest profit, but to promote poetry, literature, and audience development for writing.