Monthly Archives: January, 2021

The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. - Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car. It was all happening. All the stuff he’d been trying to get others to see, and failing to get others to see — it was all here. The day before, when his family started their Labor Day backpacking trip along the oak-lined dry creek bed in Romero Canyon, in the mountains east of Santa Barbara, the temperature had been 105 degrees. Now it was 110 degrees, and under his backpack, his “large mammalian self,” as Peter called his body, was more than just overheating. He was melting down. Everything felt wrong. His brain felt wrong and the planet felt wrong, and everything that lived on the planet felt wrong, off-kilter, in the wrong place.

Bulls fall to the Lakers at home, breaking their 3 game win streak.

Caroline Chen reflects on the current COVID pandemic, the lives lost, and the vaccine chaos.

A look into the use of "illegal" chokeholds by the New York Police Department.

LaVine Scores 25 as Bulls Beat Hornets. (Charlotte, NC) - The Charlotte Hornets hosted the Bulls tonight in their first matchup of the season

Guest: Matt Luzi - George Brassea is the owner of True Heights Treatment and Alderman of the 5th Ward in Chicago Heights Illinois. In this podcast George interviews interesting people.

The Unfinished Business of Flint’s Water Crisis (Flint, MI) - When I first heard E. Yvonne Lewis tell the story, it was a hot July...

Chicago Heights Park District looking into their books after the library district uncovers nearly 1/2 million dollars of inappropriately spent funds.

Former Chicago Heights Library director is battling allegations of inappropriately spending nearly a half million dollars of funds.

Joliet Park District: Joliet Police investigating potential large sums of financial improprieties by a former employee (Joliet, IL) -  The Joliet Park District released...