I'm staying in this place, innocuously called the Family House. It's a bit like the kind of establishment that was once called a sanitarium, as a catch-all phrase: people who were dying, people who were recovering, people who were weird and trying not to be, or just random people the rest of the world didn't quite know how to deal with. It's very very clean, not sterile, but a vast improvement over my apartment. The transient population (we are all called "guests," as we live in a...

Why are we Paying over $1,800.00 more than Chicago when were were told LAST YEAR that we would not pay any more than Chicago's increase to buy the water.

Ken Gorski
(42 year EP resident)

Everyday is the same, argument after argument. With everyone in my life. Its starting to get to hard to handle, but that's life right? Right?

As I sit and watch the RethugliKKKans fight for the throne of AmeriKKKa, I mean the Presidency, I cannot help but grow disgusted. It is truly a laughable situation. Herman Cain? Seriously?? The guy degraded women too much. He shouldn't even have run. And that guy from Texas with the N word painted on a rock at his ranch. Yeah, we know exactly where he stands. So that takes us down to Ron Paul, who has great ideas, but they'll never fly in D.C. He'd be a lame duck president. Newt Gingrich IS a Washington...

IT'S SAD TO SAY THAT THERE ARE STILL RACIST PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DO NOT OR CAN NOT GET OVER THE FACT THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE HUMANS AND HAVE JUST AS MANY RIGHTS AS THEY DO. THE QUESTION IS WHAT DID AFRICAN AMERICANS DO TO BE PUT IN SUCH SITUATIONS AS RACISM? IT'S NOT WHAT AFRICAN AMERICANS DID IT'S WHAT THE WHITE GENERATION DID. I AM NOT RACIST AND I WAS NOT RAISED TO BE RACIST BUT IN MY OPINION MY ANCESTORS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO SUFFER THEY WAY THEY DID BY THE WHITE GENERATION. THERE SHOULD...