Opinion essays and letters from our readers.
by Marc Frucht
On April 12 in Washington, I became a victim of police violence. I was marching with about 30,000 people to protest the war. All of a sudden, I saw a woman getting roughed up by several uniformed police officers. I tried to take a photo when one officer screamed, “Get the fuck out of here.”
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
It would only make sense for two groups that care about the neighborhood and have similar names to work together, or at least respect each others’ work… right? Anything else would be wasted energy. Not so. River Neighbors has recently sent letters on legal letterhead asking the Riverwest Neighborhood Association to change its name.
by Vince Bushell
I know trying to define one’s public persona is near impossible, and it may be presumptuous of me to assume I have one. However, publishing a paper puts me in a situation akin to an ambitious prairie dog that is constantly sticking his head up out of his hole. Sooner or later someone is going to take a shot at the dog.
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.
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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