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Category: Letters
Letter to the editor: Hiring yet another consultant company
Has the city of Evanston considered how much revenue would need to be generated at its 1.25% portion of the sales tax to recoup the proposed $245,000 consultant fee to […]
Guest essay: Community Alliance for Better Government endorses Poche for City Manager
Evanston has been through a long and painful few years: racial discrimination lawsuits, horribly shocking revelations of sexual abuse among beach staff, and the rapid departure of a city manager, […]
Letter from the Mayor on climate action: Now or never
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss sent the following message in a Friday, April 29, email newsletter: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released their third part of the Sixth Assessment Report, declaring this […]
Letter to the editor: Community must play a role in city manager search
Consider all the leadership changes in Evanston within a span of two years: two school superintendents, city leadership including our mayor, city council, city manager, and department heads including police chief, Northwestern University president, Evanston Community Foundation president, and others. We can probably agree that our […]
Letter to the editor: District 65 students, teachers and staff deserve more transparency
I am a Haven parent and attended the School District 65 board meeting on Monday, April 18. As noted in your reporting of the meeting, the YouTube live feed went […]
Letter to the editor: Where are District 65 leaders?
What in the world is going on that the District 65 Superintendent and school board are not responding to this problem? Nor to the District 65 community? The community elected […]
Letter to the editor: Haven records response shocking
There is so much that is disturbing in your impressively researched April 15 article “‘Concerns have been ignored, dismissed, minimized’: Inside the year at Haven,’” but there is one revelation […]
Letter to the editor: Shun the shiny foil confetti, for parks’ sake
Friends of Lovelace Park (www.LovelacePark.com) is urging everyone who uses our parks for art projects, parties and more to please not bring shiny metallic foil confetti but use paper confetti […]
Letter to the editor: How do you justify new school as enrollment drops?
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 continues to see a drop in student enrollment. The January 2022 Opening of Schools Report shows 6,393 K-8 students enrolled in the 2021-22 school year, down […]