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December 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Today is the final day to make a year-end gift to support the Sun-Times. Your donation helps keep our journalism accessible to every Chicagoan. If you’ve been considering a gift, now is the time. [https://mrf.lu/C9yg)
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
Brent Staples's piece from a few years back about how Italians became white Americans and the role of Columbus Day in that is worthy of a (re)read today:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How Italians Became ‘White’ (Published 2019)
Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: an American story.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Brent Staples's piece from a few years back about how Italians became white Americans and the role of Columbus Day in that is worthy of a (re)read today:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Thanks to Susan Orlean's memoir for alerting me to this A+ HS basketball headline in the NYT in 1989.
September 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Thanks to Susan Orlean's memoir for alerting me to this A+ HS basketball headline in the NYT in 1989.
My almost-15-year-old has no relationship with radio. He discovers new (or new-to-him) songs and artists via Instagram, Tik-Tok and, surprise, surprise (to me), the video game MLB The Show. Kudos to the folks behind its soundtrack: You are doing a great job broadening my kid's playlists.
August 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My almost-15-year-old has no relationship with radio. He discovers new (or new-to-him) songs and artists via Instagram, Tik-Tok and, surprise, surprise (to me), the video game MLB The Show. Kudos to the folks behind its soundtrack: You are doing a great job broadening my kid's playlists.
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There is a thorny history of which persons living in the U.S. have been counted, and by how much, in census numbers that form the bedrock of U.S. democracy.
But since the first U.S. census in 1790, this has been an unwavering truth: No resident has ever been left out because of immigration status.
But since the first U.S. census in 1790, this has been an unwavering truth: No resident has ever been left out because of immigration status.
Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented
Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results.
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August 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There is a thorny history of which persons living in the U.S. have been counted, and by how much, in census numbers that form the bedrock of U.S. democracy.
But since the first U.S. census in 1790, this has been an unwavering truth: No resident has ever been left out because of immigration status.
But since the first U.S. census in 1790, this has been an unwavering truth: No resident has ever been left out because of immigration status.
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Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
August 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
My son has an awesome viola teacher. This week, he was struggling with a few notes that were coming out mushy, almost elasticized. The teacher asked him to describe the sound. An ambulance (siren), my son offered. She countered with "wambulance." And then: "Beethoven doesn't want the wambulance."
May 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My son has an awesome viola teacher. This week, he was struggling with a few notes that were coming out mushy, almost elasticized. The teacher asked him to describe the sound. An ambulance (siren), my son offered. She countered with "wambulance." And then: "Beethoven doesn't want the wambulance."
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Despite some glum days, we are loving The Pitt, and I learned some cool history tonight from it (and some subsequent searching), albeit with a bitter ending. Kudos to NY Mag for jumping on this.
This week’s episode of ‘The Pitt’ gives honor and attention to the members of Freedom House Ambulance, who helped create the EMS system we know today. This documentary makes plain how much more they deserve.
So The Pitt Has You Obsessed With Freedom House Ambulance
This week’s episode of ‘The Pitt’ gives honor and attention to the members of Freedom House Ambulance, who helped create the EMS system we know today. This documentary makes plain how much more they deserve.
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February 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Despite some glum days, we are loving The Pitt, and I learned some cool history tonight from it (and some subsequent searching), albeit with a bitter ending. Kudos to NY Mag for jumping on this.
There are days -- a lot of them lately -- when I wish Mike Royko were still alive and pounding out columns. The feeling has been especially strong today.
February 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There are days -- a lot of them lately -- when I wish Mike Royko were still alive and pounding out columns. The feeling has been especially strong today.
This has been such a long month. I've spent part of the evening with the Gospel of Matthew. After some of the ways I've seen Christianity misinterpreted and warped lately, I was drawn especially to Matthew 25: 31-46. I will do my best to remember it as the year unfolds. Simple guidance, really.
February 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This has been such a long month. I've spent part of the evening with the Gospel of Matthew. After some of the ways I've seen Christianity misinterpreted and warped lately, I was drawn especially to Matthew 25: 31-46. I will do my best to remember it as the year unfolds. Simple guidance, really.