West Side resident Renna Thomas demands more honesty and action from elected officials to improve Austin and other struggling communities.
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.
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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.
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Donald Trump, the big lie and doublethink
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Longtime Austin resident Dwayne Truss warns his fellow citizens to not be confused or misled by the new president.
Opinion
Some West Side teens have not explored much beyond their ‘hood
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Al Raby High School student Kenneth Gordon shares his thoughts on visiting Downtown Chicago for the first time.
Opinion
Congress must take action now on gun legislation, says local leader
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Austin Congressman Danny K. Davis shares his thoughts about the recent events in Minnesota, Louisiana and Texas.
Opinion
This ain’t magic
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One longtime Austin resident celebrates the fact that five young men in his family have graduated from college and extols others to not let their children succumb to the bigotry of low expectations.