Photo by Dean Hochman by Daniel Johanson This week Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Ameya Pawar’s Journal New Deal Journal came out with a statement strongly against solitary confinement and backing the House Bill…
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by Daniel JohansonOn Monday, August 28th the Illinois House of Representatives voted to overturn Rauner’s veto on SB1, and this first vote did not pass. The second vote passed later…
by Emily Cox This past summer reached record high temperatures in Italy, soaring to 95 degrees Fahrenheit or more on a regular basis. In response to this, the general population has…
by Daniel Johanson New Brew Chicago is a local arts outfit, an extension of Opera on Tap Chicago, that has seen a significant resurgence in the last year. The organization…
by Daniel Johanson Over the weekend, AP reported quite a few of Governor Rauner’s most recent vetoes on a few bills that local progressives have been keeping an eye on.…
photo by Eric E Castro by Daniel Johanson For those trying to follow along, Senate Bill 1 has been a difficult process as city and state objectives aren’t seeing eye…
We sit down with Rosie Roche to talk about her burlesque podcast The Nudes Room, her upcoming The Pink Show to fundraise for breast cancer and The Pink Fund, how…
by Daniel JohansonFriday afternoon, days after the now infamous Trump rally where it was hinted, the current president has pardoned convicted criminal Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio had originally been convicted…
photo by Arnette Bernhardt by Daniel Johanson On Friday, Gov. Rauner vetoed a bill that would have raised the Illinois minimum wage to 15/hr by 2022, as reported by the…
by Daniel Johanson In a rushed twitter statement a few weeks back, Trump announced that he would be instituting a transgender ban in the military. The tweets were in response…
by Daniel Johanson Of the terms bantered back and forth between the Right and the Left since the political season, “fake news” is one of the most memorable ones, with…
Maureen and Daniel sit down to talk about Joss Whedon being a milquetoast fauxmenist, Tina Fey and satire, Gov. Rauner’s staff shift after Illinois Policy Institute’s racist cartoon, and that…