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Bottom Feeding or Planting Seeds?
Sunflower seeds Some of the calls that come in to the office are designed to prey upon gullible, desperate people. Last week’s call: “Hello! We have grant money available for small businesses…” is...
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Fertile fields await new ideas
Rainbow over a neighborhood Right now is the most fertile time for positive change that the world has seen in a very long time. Freshly plowed fields, disguised as devastated neighborhoods lay before...
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News of children having one meal a day triggers outrage
Sandwiches You should have been there. Wednesday’s morning news reported that when schools close for the swine flu, some children miss out on their only meal of the day. The story put me closer to the...
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Come out, come out, wherever you are!
Traveling southbound on the Pulaski bus, I was surprised to find a Lake Streeter sitting next to me. As we talked, I looked up and saw about six other Lake Streeters on the same bus. I wanted to finish...
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Act to counteract bitter, divisive politics
Photo: US Social Forum/People's Movement Assembly The bitter, divisive politics that has swept this country threatens our great democracy. When we give into the corrosive, pervasive feelings of fear...
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How I kept third and fourth graders quiet
Photo: Stock Exchange / Blackboard I don’t know anything about children. I often feel incompetent and that I miss the point. As one of the youngest in my family, I wasn’t around younger children until...
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Transition Rogers Park Cooperative Study Group
photo: Arctic Cooperatives Limited/ Northern Manitoba, Canada The congressional spectacle over the debt ceiling and the budget shows in stark relief that the economy that we once knew is long gone....
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The Bathrobe Party and the Dark Years
National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mental Health Numbers Left over baked russet potatoes are one of my favorite ingredients. This week’s stash prompted a flashback to the Bathrobe Party. In 1985, the...
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How I Caught the Cooties and How I Got Rid of Them
Cooties – the silent killer / Stock Exchange Working in a chilly corporate environment, with clear distinctions between the people that mattered and those that didn’t, I came down with that dreaded...
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