Pete Jansons, co-host of the Lake Forest Podcast, said local leaders and clergy prioritize image and social status over community support, urging residents to speak out at the next City Council meeting and demand leaders who “stand with their people when it costs them something.”
Pete Jansons, co-host of the Lake Forest Podcast, said local religious leaders failed to show solidarity after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, noting Rabbi Moshe Spalter and Reverend Luke Back remained silent and describing their inaction as “elitism at work in Lake Forest.”
Pete Jansons, co-host of the Lake Forest Podcast, said local leaders showed courage in 2020 by speaking out after George Floyd’s death but remained silent following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, calling their inaction “cowardice” rather than neutrality.
Joe Weiss, co-host of the Lake Forest Podcasts, said the Bagpipes and Bonfire event highlights how Open Lands’ privately funded efforts and public-private partnerships help keep local taxes low, while also praising local departments for their support and noting the lively neighborhood gatherings that accompanied the event.
Joe Weiss, co-host of the Lake Forest Podcasts, said the proposed bylaw change aims to let people who can’t attend caucus elections in person, such as students or those out of town, vote remotely, similar to regular elections.
Zach Krakow from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater begins his student teaching assignment at Mechanics Grove Elementary for the spring 2025 semester.
Zach Krakow from Grayslake, Illinois, is completing his student teaching assignment at Mechanics Grove Elementary as part of UW-Whitewater’s education program.
Lanetta M. Thomas, candidate for the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education District 9, said “we have to separate the politics out of our education” and focus on funding schools sustainably, noting concerns about local food access and the use of election funds instead of school resources.
Joe Weiss, co-host of the Lake Forest Podcast, said some states have introduced “school choice” programs, often called vouchers, allowing families to select schools outside the public system, giving lower- and middle-income families options similar to wealthier families, while noting that CPS and some suburban schools often do not use funds efficiently.
Zoe Leigh, co-founder of Chicago Flips Red, said Brandon Johnson blamed Republicans for gun issues, but that buyback efforts fail since the same guns “magically appear” again, and added that freight trains bring “new guns of the season” and claimed the Democratic Party profits from people being “brainwashed” into thinking they are oppressed.
Lanetta M. Thomas, candidate for the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education District 9, said schools should not hide students’ gender identity decisions from parents and that taxpayers should not have to fund what she called “cosmetic surgery” for sex organ changes.
Lanetta M. Thomas, candidate for the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education District 9, said she connected with Zoe from Chicago Flips Red after seeing her on TikTok “telling the truth,” and during her campaign, she claimed Planned Parenthood was created to “eradicate the Black people out of America” and noted it asked her to support extensive LGBTQ history in CPS schools.