On June 11, Locust Street Festival turns 30 years old, making it one of the longest running neighborhood festivals in the city. The festivities started as a celebration of neighborhood triumph. City engineers had a plan to widen Locust Street into a Boulevard, bulldozing fifteen businesses and displacing over fifty families and individuals. In anticipation […]
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Prairie Dog
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.
Posted inCommentary & Opinion
Bush Administration’s Spending Priorities Harmful to Neighborhood Kids
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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Where is Riverwest?
What are the borders of your neighborhood? Unless you’re a newcomer, when you think about this question, definite answers probably come to mind right away. Where did you get those answers? How certain are you that they are right? Do they describe something that’s really out there or something that for some reason or another you need or want to believe in?
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