ETA: Bike Planning for a Hopeful Future: Chapter 4, A Better Lakefront
It was hard to be hopeful in 2020, with one crisis after another fighting for our attention: COVID-19, climate change, the financial crisis, and systemic racism. Additionally, quarantining may be testing our stress and general health from lack of social contact and exercise. But as the former Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Lockdown Gives Time to Rethink: Reader
With the upcoming election, while I know that everyone may think that their own issue is important (and it may be), I think especially with the strange and unprecedented times […]
League of Women Voters of Evanston Considers the Office of City Clerk
Evanston is looking forward to primary and consolidated elections. On Feb. 23, voters will choose candidates for Mayor, Aldermen for two wards and City Clerk. Many organizations are sponsoring meetings […]
Message From Mayor Stephen Hagerty: Evanston Walks Together
On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I wanted to take this opportunity to address recent acts of hate, racism and bigotry in our community. Over the […]
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OP-ED
Charles Wilkinson: A Fragile Democracy
Like most Americans I believe in the dream of democracy. I dream of a “more perfect union” knowing that the union we claim is clearly far from being perfect at all. Nothing attests to that more than the events in our Capitol on January 6, 2021. […]
Eric. L Chehab, M.D. : Schools Are Essential Businesses and Can Be Opened Responsibly
President Trump declares, “Open the schools.” Though clearly he overlooks the complexity, opening schools is the right thing to do. However, the process is a three-dimensional Tetris puzzle with constantly moving pieces. Like Tetris, putting them in the right place at the right time is the […]
Racial Healing and Reparations: Two Steps Towards Transformation
The YWCA Evanston/North Shore will host a forum on racial healing and reparations from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 19. The panelists are Monica Haslip, founder of Little Black Pearl in Bronzeville and a national trainer of racial healing circle practitioners for the Kellogg Foundation’s […]
Be Vigilant
The outrageous attack during the Democratic Party of Evanston’s interview of Fifth Ward Aldermanic candidate Carolyn Murray was, as she herself said, “an attack on us.” The intruder into the Zoom session repetitively used words intended to demean Black people, including Ms. Murray, and ended with […]
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Masked Person of the Day: Lenice Levy
President Joe Biden has said he will ask everyone to wear a mask for the first 100 days of his administration to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. […]
Masked People of the Day: The Crew at Jennifer’s Edibles
President Joe Biden has said he will ask everyone to wear a mask for the first 100 days of his administration to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. […]
Editorial: RoundTable Defends Reporting on District 65’s Prioritizing Students in Reopening Schools
By Larry Gavin and Mary Helt Gavin An article that appeared in The Daily Northwestern on March 2 quoted Devon Horton, Superintendent of School District 65, as saying that an […]
Masked Person of the Day: Police Chief Demitrous Cook
President Joe Biden has said he will ask everyone to wear a mask for the first 100 days of his administration to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. […]
10 Months Wuhan and Western Hubei in 2020, Part 5
More than a year ago, when the virus that was paralyzing China was only part of the daily news, the RoundTable learned that Evanston resident Kurt Mitenbuler was quarantined in […]
Les Jacobson: For COVID-19 Heroes, Pandemic Takes a Big Toll
Mary Elizabeth McDonough dreams about how she and her colleagues at NorthShore University HealthSystem will celebrate when the COVID-19 pandemic finally disappears. Ms. McDonough, a registered nurse and Evanston resident, […]
ETHS Reopening: We Must Trust the Data – and Each Other
A century ago, American communities grappled with another deadly pandemic, The Spanish Influenza. Then as now, leaders failed to provide accurate information about the disease, leaving Americans isolated and ill-informed […]
Masked Person of the Day: 2020 Census Volunteers
President Joe Biden has said he will ask everyone to wear a mask for the first 100 days of his administration to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. […]
10 Months Wuhan and Western Hubei in 2020, Part 4
More than a year ago, when the virus that was paralyzing China was only part of the daily news, the RoundTable learned that Evanston resident Kurt Mitenbuler was quarantined in […]
Patience and Perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic has been almost universal in destroying balance, bringing disruption, and separating us from traditional interactions. If you want to demonstrate that human beings are truly social animals, […]
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