West Side resident Renna Thomas demands more honesty and action from elected officials to improve Austin and other struggling communities.
jobs
Thinking out loud – and outside the box
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Austin and Lawndale should work with Congress to bring entrepreneurs and jobs to the West Side as part of the federal EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program administrated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, writes Dwayne Truss.
Opinion
Our state budget, the saga continues
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State Rep. La Shawn Ford invites the Austin community to a town hall Aug. 31 to discuss the impact the new state spending plan will have on West Side residents and businesses.
culture
A modest proposal for an Austin arts and cultural center
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Longtime West Side resident James Bowers says the community should seize the opportunity to turn the Laramie State Bank Building into an arts, culture and history museum.
Opinion
So far, the Emmet School repurposing is a failure of leadership
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Longtime Austin resident sounds the alarm about how officials are deciding what to do with the school, which has been vacant since 2013 when it was closed.
Opinion
The importance of colors
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State Rep. La Shawn Ford urges all of us to work together for a more united and colorful community and country.
Opinion
Elected official meets with Facebook to discuss ways to stop violence acts from being livestreamed
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Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin urges the social media giant to hire West Siders to monitor images and videos posted.
AIDS
Today’s heroin epidemic similar to HIV/AIDS scourge in the 1980s
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West Side residents can take action to protect their friends, family and neighbors from this sweeping problem that’s more deadly than gun violence and motor accidents.
Austin
Elected official calls for reinvention of West Side school
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State Rep. La Shawn Ford says in the interest of justice, fairness and equity, Frederick Douglass Academy High School can and should be transformed.
Opinion
Austin congressman: U.S. House must investigate the president
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Rep. Danny K. Davis says the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee should begin a probe of Donald Trump’s business interests and his job as the country’s leader.
Austin
Austin pastor calls on Trump to visit Chicago
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Rev. Ira Acree wants the president to come to the West Side and provide the resources and support needed to make all neighborhoods safe and prosperous.