The answer is not nearly as much as "tax the rich" but to start taxing all of the tax-free, so-called "not-for-profits" which are found all over the city.  Hundreds or thousands of preposterous, little, storefront "churches" and huge hospitals and universities squatting on the lakefront which pay nothing for millions i...more

Boy, Liz, your piece started out talking about people's earnings, then plugged yourself and your husband into the equation but stayed way the hell away from telling us what you, your own paradigms, actually earn, didn't you?!   What a phony article!  If you insert yourself into the earnings analysis (e.g., who is r...more

I don't know why a middle-aged man like me named "Growler" has gotten a display name of "kissesXOXO", but I'm not her.  But, here's my thought: women should seldom, if ever, choose or be sent to buy clothing for their men unless they're horrifically ignorant.  Most of the women I've known come back with really rotten, ...more

I've wandered through Whole Foods stores exactly twice and will not go back as they're just overpriced rip-offs aimed at the soft-brained and the self-indulgent.   While I thought them visually appealing "circuses", all of their "organic" and "healthy" crap was pure hype; no one who shops there will live a day longer b...more