Category: Riverside
Reject the plan: testimony before the Park Board
The Page Amendment; educators’ solidarity; COVID-19 and safe reopening of schools
Summer camps 2021: some in-person, a lot of virtual options
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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The state of the COVID-19 pandemic is still pretty uncertain for summer 2021. Therefore, not surprisingly, there are more virtual options than ever before available. But there are still some in-person day camps and even residential traditional camps. There is actually a huge variety of choices,…
Gimme shelter (cont.)
Jack Ryan: Spoiler alert!
Virtual caucusing and virtual conventions this year
Monuments
A new Good Grocer does good on Eat Street
The legacy of Lisa Bender – Letter to the Editor
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Thank you for your excellent piece on Lisa Bender, published a few issues back [all February editions of Southside Pride]. I’ve lived in my own home here in the Wedge neighborhood since 1995 and I’m a semi-retired architect. I’ve also been on various neighborhood committees, beginning at the time when…
Kids’ hockey is alive and well at Hiawatha School Park
Our beloved companions – animals and us in the COVID times
Who gets the vaccine?
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BY ED FELIEN A concerned reader wrote, “Please urge more equitable distribution. Please cover this issue right away. White arms are being injected at a much higher rate than their percent of population.” Native Americans are 1.8 times more likely to get COVID-19 than white people. They are four times…
Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov. 19, 1919)
The Biden health care plan doesn’t go far enough
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BY JOHN KOLSTAD Is President Biden’s proposal regarding health care the improvement we need? How does it compare to Universal Single Payer (Improved Medicare for All)? Biden’s plan reads like a campaign promo piece. He speaks in glowing terms about how great the Obama Affordable Care Act (ACA) is and…