(This is a repost from a few years ago, with the number adjusted for now.) NOTE: Illinois-specific info. Oak Parkers are getting their property tax assessments, and they’re seeing their home value has typically gone up a lot (I’m seeing around 33% on various community boards). I’m hearing a lot of panic, where people are […]
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It would be weird to try to find contact info for Mira Nair (I’m sure I know someone who knows her), to tell her she must be so proud of her baby, right? Yes, weird. Very weird. You’re high on the Blue Wave, Mary Anne, go to sleep. Trump will undoubtedly have a destructive tantrum
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I don’t think this is why everyone votes GOP. But I do think it’s why a significant percentage of people do, often on a subconscious level they’re not really aware of. As Nalo Hopkinson says, ‘Racism is a sea of shit that we’re all swimming in, and if you’re swimming in shit, it’s inevitable that
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I thought about just staying offline today — I misphrased something yesterday in a post that led to some neighbors’ online irritation with me (fully justified irritation, I think, given what they thought I was saying), so I’m feeling embarrassed and like I shouldn’t be let out on the internet until I learn how to
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Hey, how’s everyone doing? I’ve been checking in with my students — some of them don’t pay much attention to politics, others are very aware of what’s going on. Many are worried. I’m worried about them. I told them that I didn’t know what I could do to help, but they should consider me a
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I’m still a little annoyed that they quoted me without asking or warning me it was running; I suppose as an elected official in a public meeting, there’s no journalistic requirement that they do so, but I do sometimes speak ‘off the cuff’ in those meetings, not from prepared notes, and it’d be nice to
Oh, this is what I do at 11:30 p.m. on a Friday night, filling out another candidate questionnaire, this one from the Oak Leaves newspaper. Mostly the same questions as other questionnaires, although with a few differences: > Why are you running for election to the board? I’m finishing up a four-year term on the
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