Paul Sassone – Page 17

Paul Sassone: Lots of questions, fewer answers regarding Ike expansion

May 13, 2019 at 2:54 p.m.

In science fiction movies, the future is always imagined as dystopian. It is dark and rainy and all the buildings look like crumbling Mies van der Rohe creations. I started...

Paul Sassone: The future of e-waste isn’t bright

May 13, 2019 at 2:54 p.m.

Ever wonder how the world will end? I'm beginning to think we eventually will be buried under mountains of our own electronic waste. More and more, we are dependent on...

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, seen here on Sept. 16, 2015, warned that the power at the state Capitol and driver facilities across the state could be shut off because of the state budget impasse.

Paul Sassone: The state saves while you lose

May 13, 2019 at 2:54 p.m.

The state of Illinois doesn't have money, so we shouldn't have it, either. How else to explain the dirty trick the Illinois secretary of state's office played on us when...

Melanie Walchli, 20, smokes during a downtown Chicago walk Jan. 14. Oak Park could join Chicago in raising its minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Paul Sassone: Oak Park should lead the way in raising minimum age to buy tobacco

May 13, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

70. That would be about the right age. If I had my way, no one under the age of 70 would be allowed to buy tobacco products. At least by...

Low-wage airport workers and activists protest in front of the Willis Tower in Chicago Jan. 18, 2016.

Paul Sassone: The case against higher minimum wage doesn’t add up

May 12, 2019 at 9:27 p.m.

If employers aren't willing to pay low-end employees a decent, living wage, you'd think they could at least come up with some new excuses why they won't. Instead, we hear...

In this 2011 file photo, Randy Dettloff, a residential garbage worker for Waste Management, rolls out and uses a lever to lift containers filled with garbage toward the back of a garbage truck along the 3500 block of south Scoville in Berwyn.

Paul Sassone: With Oak Park garbage contract, let’s not fix what isn’t broke

May 13, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

I don't worry much about garbage. Do you? If we don't, a lot of that credit has to go to Waste Management, the firm with which Oak Park officials contract...

A view of the Internal Revenue Service's headquarters March 24, 2016, in Washington, DC.

Paul Sassone: Don’t fall victim to tax season scam attempts

May 12, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.

Are we really that dumb? I keep seeing items in the news alerting us to income tax scams. They play a recording of an alleged IRS agent threatening on the...

Jewel, 7036 W. Roosevelt Road, was one of three Oak Park businesses to receive two routine food inspection scores of less than 60 in 2015.

Paul Sassone: Freedom and government can and should co-exist

May 13, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

Death by bratwurst. Oh, no. We imagine a far better departure for ourselves than that – peacefully in our sleep at 101, or honorably defending our country or family. But...

A dummy made by Mexican craftsman Felipe Linares representing U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen at his workshop in Mexico City on March 24, 2016. The figure will be burnt Saturday during the celebration of the Holy Week. For many years, for every Saturday of glory, the Linares family has made cardboard figures representing all evils, which are burnt commemorating the Burning of Judas.

Paul Sassone: Strangers shouldn’t be automatic enemies

May 12, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.

Presidential campaigns have been pretty unpleasant lately. And it's only going to get worse. All the name-calling and mud slinging of the Republican and Democratic primaries could soon be winding...

Paul Sassone: Is violence the new normal?

May 13, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

I'd like to blame it on Donald trump, but I can't. Though I can't help but think the aura and tone of violence that Trump has ramped up in election...

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