The Other Internees
I was interned at the age of 17 after arrest at Woodward High in Cincinnati, at Crystal City, Texas, with an equal number of German and Japanese internees and one Italian family from Honduras, Central America. In April 1947 I was sent to Ellis Island and not released until September 1947.
Does Anyone Even Want the Olympics?
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Your article was brilliant. It did a wonderful job of tying together all of the major issues in the city right now, and it got to heart of the matter without hyperbole or vitriol. I read the piece while driving in the car on Saturday with my husband driving, and I couldn’t help but read the best parts aloud to him—over 3/4 of the article. Over the years, your articles on TIFs have consistently been right on the mark, and I wish there was something that could be done to wake folks up to the danger they pose. You’d think the statistics you cited in your most recent article would do it. But I guess for a while longer, you have no choice but to keep up the fight.
Where we still ain’t ready for reform
Thank you for writing this. Bottom line, Daley’s going to screw the Chicago taxpayer! I don’t know anyone who is for the Olympics coming to Chicago, which might add up to 100 people, but they don’t know anyone either. Where are all these “supporters”? I’m getting the impression that it’s only Daley and all the spineless representation in City Hall!
Is that when you’ll tell us these stories, Ben, in the summer when the heat and the guns crackle? Or, have you been telling us all along and we just haven’t been listening?
