Slogans. Once, a succinct expression of goals or aspirations (“Proletarians of all countries, unite!” or “No Taxation Without Representation”), they became a much more ambiguous affairs lately. Especially when we are talking about a pretty complicated matter, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Slogans are the key in the battle for the public opinion, an integral part […]
The newly convened Urbana School District Facilities Committee, presented as the ultimate decision-making body in the casus Wiley, – an egregious attempt to disband a successful majority-minority elementary school, – had its second meeting on May 9th. A few patterns came into focus, all familiar. One is the administration’s reliance on raw power: the voting
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This happened on November 11 last year. A friend’s kid attending Yankee Ridge Elementary was pulled out of a classroom activity dedicated to Veterans Day and sent to the office to do some unrelated work instead. Why? The voicemail left on the parent’s phone explained that they think the parents don’t want the kid celebrating
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Champaign’s County clerk’s website lists the candidates for the Urbana School District’s Board of Education as: • Benjamin Baxley – Subdistrict 7• Paul Poulosky – Subdistrict 5• Ravishankar Hasanadka – Subdistrict 2• Citlaly Yuritzi Stanton – Subdistrict 1• Sheri Langendorf – Subdistrict 3• Torionna L. Exum – Subdistrict 6 We see three old names (Ms.
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I am not sure Rodney Davis deserves a political epitaph. His political career was defined by blandness, so he wouldn’t complain. His time in the Congress served as the rank and file Party soldier, he tried at all cost to avoid any controversy while making sure to create enough inconsequential partisan babble to remain in
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