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Scandal at jail another symptom of war on drugs
Let me start with this: If not for the absurd war on drugs — by far, the nation's longest war — we would not have had so many killings on the streets of Baltimore over the years. The United States leads the world in incarceration. Without the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, War Crimes, Black Guerrilla Family, Prisons, Taliban
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Tragedies connect parents
Michelle Ross of Oklahoma City never followed the playing career of Erik Kramer, who was the Bears' quarterback in the mid-1990s. "I am not much of a sports person," she said. But after coming across a Tribune story about Kramer's late son, Griffen,...
Tags: Sports, Substance Abuse, Football, Death and Dying Customs, National Football League
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'The Connection': '60s shocker returns, with emeritus status ✭✭✭
Two time capsules in one, "The Connection" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961 and received a scant, notorious U.S. release in 1962, its rough language (for the time) causing all sorts of censorship troubles. Bring-down, man! Total bring-down....
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, The New York Times
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'House I Live In' explores war on drugs and its toll on America ★★★
Taking on a hellacious societal problem, a documentary filmmaker benefits from finding a narrow path leading to the heart of that problem — a specific angle, an image, a detail, that opens up to the wider world and a host of provocations. Eugene...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Richard Nixon, AIDS, Crime, Law and Justice, Cocaine
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Lake residents continue to send care packages to appreciative soldiers in Afghanistan
Happy Nowruz to Lake County from the mountains of Afghanistan. Navy Lt. j.g. Laura Cook sends greetings of the Persian New Year from her unit, which is stationed near the border with Iran. Laura, if you recall from previous columns, is a 1998...Tags: Memorial Day, Holidays, U.S. Military
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'City of Fear': A nuclear-age noir to savor ★★★ 1/2
There's an antidote for this bizarre March cold spell we're having: an equally bizarre warm front known as Cobalt 60 — the radioactive time bomb in a canister coveted by the killer played by Vince Edwards in the 1959 Columbia Pictures noir "City...Tags: Entertainment, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch (movie), Movies, Vince Edwards
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IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way
The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration — the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives — certainly makes for meaty partisan politics. But this scandal is...Tags: Sales, Chicago Mayor, Chicago City Hall, Wrigley Field, Parties and Movements
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Dogwood made good food and a difference in lives
Has it been mentioned anywhere that the couple who ran the Dogwood Restaurant in Hampden tried to change the lives of desperate people while serving good food and drink? There aren't a lot of businesses willing to hire ex-offenders and recovering drug...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Addiction, Restaurants, Prisons, Social Issues
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All jokes aside, it's time to get serious about legalizing marijuana
Now that longtime activist and irreverent Fort Lauderdale attorney Norm Kent has become leader of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, what should we call him? His Highness? Boss Weed? Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Joints?...
Tags: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Lake Worth, Lawyers, Plantation, Fort Lauderdale
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'Gideon's' promise still unfulfilled
"Make me wanna holler, way they do my life." -- Marvin Gaye, "Inner City Blues" Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of "Chasing...
Tags: Criminals, Lawyers, Prisons, Defendants, Crime, Law and Justice
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave talks about 'painful births' in songwriting
AUSTIN, Texas -- Nick Cave has written novels, movie scripts and a few dozen of the greatest songs of the last 30 years. Yet for him, it never gets any easier. The problem with finishing a song, Cave said Tuesday as a featured speaker at the 27th...
Tags: Caves and Caverns, David Bowie, Entertainment, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Brazil
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Retirement bounty leads to chore deficit
Dear Amy: I am retired and live with my girlfriend, who still works full time. Financially, we're good, but problems arise when she gets home from work. She seems to have this expectation that I should do all of the household chores: cleaning, shopping,...
Tags: Alcohol Addiction
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