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The doctor can’t see you now: Is access to health care in crisis?
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 20, 2024 Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series. When health care consultant Michael Millenson phoned Endeavor Health last year to make a
How to process the Trump victory
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 6, 2024 Waking up this morning to read the election results provokes a number of thoughts. The first is the Chinese curse, so-called: May you live in
New book, movie emerge from talented Fiffer clan
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 18, 2024 Exciting news from the highly creative Fiffer clan, longtime northwest Evanston residents: When last heard from on these pages two years ago, Steve Fiffer was celebrating the
Running across Evanston
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 4, 2024 Looking for a way to brighten up and, in his words, “gamify” the tedium of training for a marathon, Evanstonian Jeffrey Jamison hit on a
Driving with George
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 4, 2024 It wasn’t a dream or a fantasy so much as a thought experiment: What if, sitting alongside me, inexplicably riding shotgun in my beat-up Chevy,
Meals on Wheels faces financial turmoil as executive director departs
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 20,2024 Evanston-based nonprofit Meals on Wheels Northeastern Illinois is facing a severe financial crisis, and the meal delivery organization’s longtime leader has left under a cloud, multiple
There’s a riot going on!
Evanston RoundTable, August 14, 2024 Author’s note: This recollection of the 1968 Democratic National Convention was written some years after the events depicted took place, so there may be a
The three B’s – Bach, Beethoven and Bobby
Evanston RoundTable, August 14, 2024 With more than two dozen teachers and 327 students ranging in age from 1 to 92, the Northwestern University Music Academy has a huge teaching
The Now of Now: In which we consider the common fire hydrant
Evanston RoundTable, July 30, 2024 Many decades ago I volunteered at an Evanston hospice organization. Volunteers had to undergo a day of training, and one of the exercises during the