Monthly Archives: June 2000

Summertime Blues

6/29/2000 – 3:56 pm

Welcome to summer, wanna buy some gas? I was watching the Lehrer Newshour show last week when a representative from an oil industry trade group explained that gas prices in Chicago are sky-high because area oil wholesalers had not prepared themselves for the summer demand. Does that explain things? The Chicago gas wholesalers forgot this […]

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Little Tin Hitlers

6/22/2000 – 4:06 pm

Adrienne and I had to run some lunch-hour errands a few weeks ago, so we grabbed some sandwiches to eat in the car. We thought we’d park down by the municipal pier and look at the lake, but we forgot now that summer is here, you have to pay four dollars to pull into the […]

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Political Pollution

6/15/2000 – 4:09 pm

Dioxin is back in the news. It’s the chemical that won’t go away, in more ways than one. The Environmental Protection Agency is releasing the results of its nine-year reassessment of dioxin. Nine years of study reveal exactly what the environmental community has said all along: dioxin is a much greater health hazard, in smaller […]

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The Price of Justice

6/1/2000 – 4:16 pm

You’ve seen, I’m sure, the news reports from Zimbabwe, where black Africans have been seizing farms from, and in some cases killing, white Africans. The issue is land. What is now Zimbabwe was seized from the Bantu people by the British in the 19th century and, until a few decades ago, called Rhodesia. The majority […]

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