Politics
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Eileen O’Neill Burke for State’s Attorney
For weeks now, I’ve been working on behalf of Eileen O’Neill Burke for Cook County State’s Attorney, and I wanted to share more broadly my thinking on this important race. I was a 2-time voter and supporter of Kim Foxx, our current Cook County State’s Attorney, and I think she has done a great job.…
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Vote “yes” to Bring Chicago Home
Bring Chicago Home is a binding referendum on the March 2024 ballot where voters get to decide whether to authorize Chicago city council members to restructure the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT), a one-time tax on properties when they are sold to create a substantial and legally dedicated revenue stream to provide permanent affordable housing…
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Our Boilerplate
In December 1994, I published an eight-part verse essay called, “Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction”, subtitled, “Being a List of 8 Ways in Which the Dead at Waco are a Lot Like the Rest of Us”. Here’s more info on the book we published, with a snip: Boilerplate was first published…
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King Von, John Lewis, 10 minutes & 17 miles in the American South
I’ve wrriten personal essays over the years that meld my life into the current moment.
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Lori Lightfoot for Mayor
I’m voting for Lori Lightfoot to be the mayor of the city of Chicago. Lori has the integrity, the experience, and the life that it takes to be the mayor of this city and to bring us beyond the brittle smallness of where we live. I worked with Lori as a member of the Chicago…