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Showing posts with label DuQuoin State Fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DuQuoin State Fair. Show all posts
Friday, July 26, 2019

When Confederates become Yankees instead, nothing makes much sense

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When it comes to the use of imagery of the old Confederacy, it’s next to impossible to tone down the images so as to downplay just what that...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Confederate values – Is that really what we’re fighting over these days?

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The choice of entertainment for the Illinois State and DuQuoin State fairs is, strictly speaking, not a Chicago-area issue. Although I have ...
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Gregory Tejeda
Chicago's far South Side, Illinois, United States
I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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