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Opinion
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Peggy Mcgrath
How thrilled Rachel Carson would be with Oak Park and River Forest's efforts to raise environmental awareness around Earth Day. This sacred, mysterious world of ours is engaged, 50 years after the publishing of Silent Spring, in multiple and complex struggles. Carson would be saddened, but so very grateful that so many have taken up her banner.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
I am concerned about the tree removal occurring in Oak Park. A few years ago, we were cutting all the trees due to the...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
More than 500 people came out and viewed films during the inaugural One Earth Film Fest in Oak Park and River Forest...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Given the structures of patriarchy that have long existed within black and white communities, a white Dominican...
Journal's editorials
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Previously we've commended the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School for stepping back from its timetable to hire a consultant for its coming strategic plan. Why did this board delay after having solicited bids and interviewing final candidates? For the excellent, and seldom publicly acknowledged reason, that the school board realized it still didn't know what it wanted from a strategic planning process.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Sometimes the path to innovation in government comes in the back door. That's OK. So long as it comes. River Forest village government, anticipating the end of this crushing recession, is looking anew at the languishing, maybe even decaying, old Edward Hines Lumberyard on Madison Street.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 10:00 PM
By the time you read this, Oak Park's village board will have likely chosen a search firm to help find the next village manager. That search process could be a reality series on Wonk TV. Likely it won't be a special, though, on VOP TV, which is the village's cable channel for board meetings, event placards and the excellent video stylings of Joe Kreml, the village's videographer.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 10:00 PM
It is hard to imagine — impossible really — that by the early 1970s, Frank Lloyd Wright's home-based studio on Chicago Avenue was a dumpy rooming house and that there was talk of demolishing it.
Letters to the editor
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Columns / One views
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
Frank Vozak
I was very taken aback by the letter offering harsh criticism of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and the manner in which he deals with requests for constituent services.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 10:00 PM
Paul Moroney
I just finished reading Ken Trainor's column [Liberal? Conservative? Free-market Socialist? Viewpoints, May 2] concerning political labels. I found it interesting, as I do most of his thoughts. Along the spectrum from Right to Left, I suspect that most people who know me best would place my politics more to the "Liberal" than to the "Conservative" end of the spectrum.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 10:00 PM
By John Hubbuch
News coverage in the Information Age is a lot different from the days when Chet Huntley and David Brinkley closed their 15-minute newscast by wishing each other a good night. The orgy of news coverage of the trial of the man who is charged with murdering Jennifer Hudson's sister and niece is illustrative.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 10:00 PM
Oak Park's six governing bodies proclaimed last week, April 22-28, the Week of the Young Child, recognizing the critical importance of high-quality early learning and care experiences in preparing children for success in learning and in life.
Ken Trainor
Staff writer
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 10:00 PM
What if birds didn't sound as lovely as they do? I thought about that one morning before the sun rose. Most mornings this spring, I have awakened to the sound of birds. They start singing early, just after 3 a.m., beginning with a robin, usually, in a tree outside my bedroom window.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 10:00 PM
After the Vatican announced their recent crackdown on the organization representing 80 percent of the 57,000 nuns in this country, I received an email from a Catholic friend in Los Angeles, saying she's fed up and plans to start attending the Episcopal Church down the street.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 10:00 PM
With six months to go till the presidential election, the Republicans have finally resigned themselves to a nominee (a Rominee?). The ugliness unleashed by the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision (the court's most infamous since Dred Scott) is about to begin, with SuperPac mudslinging in earnest.
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 10:00 PM
Last week I spotted a bumper sticker on a Prius that read, simply, "Think Good Thoughts." Sounds like good advice given the incoming broadsides of the upcoming campaign. Good thoughts may be our only defense.