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Expressing gratitude
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 23, 2024 One of the many wonderful features of the annual Thanksgiving holiday, in addition to the food and the company, is the opportunity to express our
Rx for health care access: Some initiatives that may help
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 21, 2024 Editor’s note: The first part of this series explored the supply-and-demand dynamics that help explain difficulty accessing doctors nationwide, and the concerns of local patients
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