Fur-wearing vegetarian Tripti Shah Kasal writes that she has consulted “some of my friends who have the opposite contradiction–they believe in eating animals but not wearing them. I’ve only become more confused.ÉBut in the meantime, while we all figure this one out, I promise that when I walk into a restaurant and someone is eating meat I won’t spray paint his steak, and hopefully he will stay away from my coat” (Today’s Chicago Woman, January 1991).
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Affirmative action within Chicago’s black community? “Even the two most prominent social service agencies that advocate for African Americans have few West Siders on their boards,” write Laura S. Washington and Curtis Lawrence in the Chicago Reporter (December 1990). “Among the 20 black members of the 35-member board of the Chicago Urban League, only board president James W. Compton lives west. And Nancy Jefferson is the only West Sider who sits on the national board of Operation PUSH. Compton said the disparity is an ‘oversight’ he will correct. ‘The entire Chicago community must accept the challenge to redevelop the West Side of the city and look to its residents for input and leadership,’ he said.”
Some culture to go with your new fillings? “The Cultural Center has been a hub of art and life,” says critic Sue Taylor in the New Art Examiner (January 1991), “a non-elitist institution which made culture available to people getting off the bus, during lunch hour, on the way to the dentist, warming up from the cold, or borrowing a book. And it has rightly been for years a source of civic pride, at least for those who care whether Chicago is itself a cultural center or merely a cultural backwater.”
The long road back. The LaSalle Financial Planner (December 1990) gives the top marginal income tax rates for the richest U.S. taxpayers, by year, in percent: 1980, 70; 1985, 50; 1988, 28; 1991, 31.
