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Balancing Act: Maybe America needs group therapy? Christie Tate’s memoir, ‘Group,’ reveals the messy process of facing and healing our traumas
Maybe America needs group therapy. I sat down to read Christie Tate’s memoir, “Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life,” as a pandemic raged and our nation’s capital was reeling from a violent attack and our president faced a second impeachment and our collective nerves felt collectively shot. I finished it in a day. The book is largely devoid of politics. Tate, a Chicago lawyer, started writing it in 2015, and it chronicles events from a decade prior to that. None of today’s specific frustrations or events are present on its pages. But it plumbs the human psyche — Tat...
Chicago Tribune
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Many state capitols have security holes
State capitols around the country remain on high alert following the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and as new threats surface online, but with less than two-thirds of them employing metal detectors, and about 20 statehouses specifically allowing guns inside, there are many security gaps that rioters could exploit. Last week, as insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump broke through U.S. Capitol windows and ransacked congressional offices, like-minded protesters gathered at state capitols around the country. Most chanted, gave speeches and carried flags without much incident....
Stateline.org
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Many state capitols have security holes
State capitols around the country remain on high alert following the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and as new threats surface online, but with less than two-thirds of them employing metal detectors, and about 20 statehouses specifically allowing guns inside, there are many security gaps that rioters could exploit. Last week, as insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump broke through U.S. Capitol windows and ransacked congressional offices, like-minded protesters gathered at state capitols around the country. Most chanted, gave speeches and carried flags without much incident....
Stateline.org
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A 'homelessness authority' was supposed to get Seattle and its suburbs on the same page. It hasn't
SEATTLE — King County Executive Dow Constantine has been thinking a lot this past year about his first exposure to politics as a child: the Paris peace talks at the end of the Vietnam War. Famously, before the talks could even start, they were held up by a disagreement about the shape of the table the North and South Vietnamese leaders would sit around. It’s been on Constantine’s mind because of a battle closer to home: Who gets a say in how the Seattle region will tackle homelessness for the foreseeable future. A year ago, the county and city of Seattle signed an agreement to set up a “region...
The Seattle Times
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Lil Nas X begging fans to buy new children’s book sends sales soaring
Lil Nas X is truly a man of his generation. With this week’s release of his new children’s book, the social media-savvy, history-making Billboard chart-topper pleaded with fans to purchase “C is For Country” in order to pay his rent. “MY CHILDREN’S BOOK “C IS FOR COUNTRY” IS OUT NOW!!!! GO GET IT PLEASE I REALLY NEED TO PAY MY RENT!,” Lil Nas X tweeted Tuesday. Turns out that the hilarious stunt panned out because the “Old Town Road” rapper later shared that the book had soared to the top of the book sales charts. Alongside a screenshot showing the top children’s books, he wrote, “WE JUST HIT ...
New York Daily News
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'I am going to prove that this works': Caitlin Gooch uses horses to motivate kids to read
Caitlin Gooch has spent her entire life surrounded by horses and lots and lots of kids — siblings, cousins, nieces, nephews and now her own daughters. But three years ago, the 28-year-old Wendell, North Carolina, native got serious about combining the two for a worthy cause: helping raise literacy rates by getting more kids interested in reading. After graduating from East Carolina University, Gooch, whose father has a horse farm and arena in Wendell, had been volunteering with young kids in an after-school program. They loved looking at all of the horse photos on her phone, she said. But many...
Tribune News Service
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Obama Presidential Center supporters ‘see a light at the end of the tunnel,’ while opponents say it’s not over yet
CHICAGO — When Pastor Byron Brazier passes by the future site of the Obama Presidential Center, he already sees the glory of the South Side, he said. There’s the palace-like Museum of Science and Industry building, its lofty Greek columns and jade-colored dome reflecting in the lagoon. The Gothic towers of the University of Chicago’s leafy campus. And the 550 acres of Jackson Park teeming with wildlife and green land — and where he is patiently waiting for the 235-tall, sprawling Obama center complex to one day stand. “The assets that are on the South Side that had been overlooked will now be ...
Chicago Tribune
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Another federal review into Obama center concludes; Chicago groundbreaking set for 2021
CHICAGO — A federal review into the historic effects of former President Barack Obama’s proposed presidential center in Jackson Park officially concluded Thursday afternoon, further dashing hopes of opposition groups troubled by the impact of future construction on the storied South Side park. Officials finalized a memorandum of agreement that caps off the presidential center’s three-year Section 106 federal review, the longest out of several triggered by the Obama Foundation’s decision to locate the future complex on historic property. Other reviews into mitigating environmental impacts as we...
Chicago Tribune
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He owns the same Dunkin' store where he got his start — and he's giving back to say thanks
PHILADELPHIA — Sonny Ho was a 16-year-old Philly high school student when he landed his first job. “I was a porter, doing cleanup,” he said. “After school I threw out the trash, mopped the floor, and hosed down the kitchen in the Dunkin’ Donuts at Erie-Torresdale. I made about $100 (a week) and was so happy for it.” A lot has changed since the mid-1980s: Dunkin’ Donuts is now called Dunkin’, and Ho’s company, Northeast Donut Shops Management Corp., owns 45 of them — including Erie-Torresdale. The CEO is 50 years old, lives in Jenkintown with his wife, Alice, drives a Tesla, and recently donate...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Chaplains adapt to the new COVID-19 calling
MINNEAPOLIS — The Rev. Andrew Jaspers walked into the hospital room of a man dying of COVID-19 with a mask over his mouth, a shield over his face and a prayer in his heart. Making the sign of the cross, he searched the man’s face for signs of recognition, then bent toward his ear as he recited the last rites of the Catholic faith, dipping his gloved finger into anointing oil to touch the patient’s forehead. A dozen family members joined the priest in prayer from their living room, their grief clearly visible from the iPad on a bedside cart. “Everybody in the room was crying,” Jaspers said of t...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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