Governors State Chief Diversity Officer Joi Patterson says the university will not shy away from celebrating different cultures.
Column: Governors State to hold inaugural Black History Education Symposium
Category: Daily Southtown Opinion
Donna Vickroy: Old age can be hell when all you want is calm, order, health and friends
This is how I expected retirement to be: A nice stroll into a calm, slow, nonthreatening way of life as we put aside the chaos of the working world. Au contraire!
Column: Erin Mathias, who revivied Park Forest PTO, appointed to District 163 Board
Angela Watts and Erin Mathias created a fully functioning Parent-Teacher Organization at Mohawk Primary Center in Park Forest.
Donna Vickroy: Looking for moments of zen amid the national chaos the only way to stay sane
It didn’t take long to realize the new leadership’s manic attack on the status quo was by design. It also didn’t take long to realize the “shock and awe” was meant to both terrorize and exhaust us.
Column: South suburban business advocates warn targeting of DEI will hurt small businesses and the economy
Rod Young, president of Calumet Park-based Black Contractors, Owners and Executives, and founder Shon Harris defend DEI programs.
Donna Vickroy: Amphibian creatures don’t come much cuter than axolotls, and they make great pets too
You might know axolotls from video games like “Minecraft” and “Pokemon,” but the aquatic salamanders with unique, adorable and popular with people who keep amphians as pets.
Sen. Michael E. Hastings: We must protect Illinois families from unfair insurance premium hikes
Insurance companies regularly raise their rates, often with no prior insurance claim or other unforeseen event to warrant the hikes.
David McGrath: Trump’s use of ‘border czar’ bully to terrorize immigrants taking page from sadistic Civil Rights-era Bull Connor
Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan’s taking a page right out of notorious segragationist and Ku Klux Klan supporter Bull Connor’s playbook from the 1960s.
Column: Park Forest Board mentions mayoral confrontation, takes no action
Park Forest Trustee Randall White said he was “saddened and disgusted” by dispute of Mayor Joe Woods and Antiwone and Shalonda Hardy.
Donna Vickroy: Mission accomplished for late suburban astrophysicist who proved his doubters wrong
While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south suburban Chicago man was “touching” the sun. Traveling at “a blazing 430,000 miles per hour,” according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to reach the outer corona of the sun. If only its namesake, Eugene Parker, had lived to celebrate it.