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Dreamers , TPS workers must be protected

Families across our communities are already struggling with the rising costs of health care, child care, and aging and disability care. At the same time, our country faces serious shortages of workers who provide this essential care. Yet instead of investing in care and stability, immigration policies are putting these workers—and the families who depend on them—at risk. Losing trusted caregivers can deepen workforce shortages, disrupt care for children, older adults, people with disabilities, and patients, weaken local economies, and increase costs for families. Dreamers and TPS ...

The bad actors

In the aftermath of the revelation that APS school board member Monica Dziesinski hired an elite, down-state law firm to influence the outcome of the school board recall, there is a question that lingers in that stinky airspace. Many community members have wondered where the money came from to fund an expense of this magnitude. Estimates are that level of legal advice likely came with a $10,000-20,000 price tag. We should all pause on that thought for a moment. Did Dziesinski have an extremely successful bake sale or did she have a benefactor? If Dziesinski had a benefactor it would ...

When leftists pounced on the unity of 9/11

Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims. "I know ...

Peace cannot exist without justice

What this 9/11 anniversary means to me is mourning for the world, for all mankind, not just for our souls, alive and dead, but for our intellect, our ability to think critically and to investigate and question our reality in light of the truth, which is love and which cannot exclude justice. Sept. 11, to me, is one event in a series which unveils America’s imperialist mindset and her total war economic dependency since World War II and all the atrocities that have occurred as a consequence. It’s evidence that peace cannot exist without justice and that, as Americans, we are ...