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April, 2017 www.LakeviewNewspaper.com Lakeview Newspaper Page 1 Hollywood April 2017 Crime FREE - Our 21st Year Gossip Lakeview, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square Page 7 Page 10 & NorthCenter April, 2017 “We don’t make the news, we just report it.” Volume 21, Number 5 “A city that encourages Interview political bullying” by George Rimel Two million people in facebook pages began police reports and had customers, our neigh- school. Our boss sched- Illinois voted for Presi- after supporting Trump. threats against them bors and ourselves to uled my twin brother dent Trump. Suzzanne Monk al- personally. the daily risk...we have and I on the same shift Alexander Duvel and leges that she was In a letter to the ed- to leave. In the end, it 20Questions at the same time at two Suzzanne Monk were harassed and bullied itor that appeared in wasn't the high taxes, different restaurants among them. when she dressed in Crain's Chicago Busi- constant road con- and we only had one This husband and red, white and blue ness, the letter read struction or high crime. This month’s interview car. wife team own Worlds and went to the Trump in part: “Chicago, you It wasn't the unchecked is with Carter Harms, Q. What hobbies/spe- of Music, located in rally, here in Chicago. have always been a gang violence or politi- Chief of Staff, Office of cial interests do you the North Center com- However, the Chicago Democratic town, but cal cronyism. State Representative have? munity at 4161 North Police Department shut this year you have In the end, we have Ann M. Williams, 1726 A. I like going to Chica- Damen Avenue. The the rally down because become a one party to leave because of the W. Belmont, Chicago. go’s free events. business specializes in they were concerned town city terrorizing hate you are willing to Q. What is your favor- new and used musical about the President anyone not in your par- tolerate...You have a Q. Where were you ite TV show, movie and instruments, lessons, elect's security. ty for their beliefs... Trump size chip on that born and raised? book? workshops and music They have had about We will close at the big shoulder, and it has A. I was born in Dallas, A. My favorite TV show events. 30 different people end of April, because turned you into a city of Texas and raised in is Broad City”; my The attacks on their threaten them and the we are no longer will- fear, hate and division. Southlake,Texas. favorite movie is “Big personal and business store and have made ing to subject our staff, A city that encourag- Q. Are you married? Fish” and my favor- Continued page 3 Any children? ite book is “Gilead” by A. No and I have no Marilynne Robinson. What’s on your Mind? children. Q. If you could travel to Q. Where did you at- any place in the world, tend school? where would you go A. Wheaton College. and why? Q. What is your fondest A. Macau Island, which childhood memory? was taken over Por- A. Going to my grand- tugal from China. It parents lake house in seems like an interest- the summer and play- ing place to visit. ing on the dock with my Q. Who would you like brothers and cousins to meet in person and “Spring Break. I need a “I am a college student and and watching the stars “Our President. I am look- what question would break from teaching.” am applying for internships at night. ing for a way to get me and you ask? egal." and trying to be productive Q. What was the worst my kids out of the country.” A. President Obama. and not waste my time.” job you ever had? I would ask him “What A. Working as a serv- is his vision for the fu- Jasmin Andrews Jack Richardson Mary Berry er when I was in high Continued page 2 Page 2 Lakeview Newspaper www.LakeviewNewspaper.com April, 2017 Editorial & Opinions King Features Weekly Service Weekly Features King Interview continued from Page 1 20, 2017 March found that Romneycare in Massachu- ture?” setts improved measures of physical and mental health. A Rice University Q. What have been study of the Houston area found that your three greatest people with insurance report being in achievements? better health than those who lack it. If nothing else, insurance is protection A. Being in the job against catastrophic health expenses I have now. In high and provides a sense of security. school, I was Valedic- Republicans obviously shouldn’t accept the premises of their detractors. torian and making it By all means, they should hit the dubi- on my own in Chicago ous methodology of the CBO, which and being independent The Worst Argument vastly overestimated how many people would be covered on the Obamacare after college and not for Trumpcare exchanges in the first place. And they regretting it. Of all the arguments to make for should point out Obamacare’s manifest Q. What have been repealing and replacing Obamacare, failings, including an overreliance on your three greatest dis- the very worst is that people don’t the deeply flawed Medicaid program need health insurance. and insurance exchanges that are shaky appointments? Yet this is a Trump administration at best (the executive of Aetna recently A. I applied with a talking point. White House press said they are in a “death spiral”). secretary Sean Spicer recently told But the best response to criticisms Senator’s office af- Service Weekly Features King reporters, “When we 20, 2017 March get asked the that Trumpcare doesn’t cover enough ter college and didn’t But that seems to be the direction question, ‘How many people are going people is simple and more fundamen- get the job.My school they are heading government-wide. to get covered?’ that’s not the question tal — to get the coverage numbers Washington is now a conservative’s suspended a profes- that should be asked.” Pressed on the up. If the headline-grabbing numbers paradise. Plans are being developed to merits of the bill by George Steph- from the CBO don’t prompt the GOP sor over his stance on cripple nearly all domestic programs, anopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” to realize this, nothing will. Mak- Muslims.It was a huge the ones that have been fought for over Office of Management and Budget ing the tax credit in the Republican controversy and the decades, the ones that provide food Director Mick Mulvaney shot back, plan more generous further down the and shelter for those who need such “You’re worried about getting people income scale would be a start. Presi- lack of substance with things. Meanwhile, the regulations covered.” As if that’s a woeful mistake. dent Trump’s promises about univer- President Trump. that often are the only barrier to stop This is a strange rhetorical tack for sal coverage aren’t achievable, but to Q. What is your “pet the greedy from stealing even more are officials in an administration led by a lurch in the other direction and dismiss being shredded. president who pledged to cover every- the significance of health insurance is peeve”? Much is being made about the Trump one. Nor is it substantively or political politically poisonous. A. People that com- The National Illness administration’s coziness with Rus- defensible. Repealing and replacing At its best, the Trump phenomenon plain constantly. sia, a ruthless adversary of the Unit- Obamacare will require every ounce pointed to a GOP more grounded Many Republican leaders are leery ed States. As dangerous as Vladimir of persuasiveness that Republicans in the economic realities of work- Q. If you could change about having their name attached to the Putin’s apparatus is, the bigger dan- can muster, especially with the Con- ing-class life. It is remarkable, then, places with someone GOP’s replacement for Obamacare, a ger might be from the many operating gressional Budget Office now estimat- that the first major legislative priority for one day, who would health care overhaul they have demon- parts of Donald Trump’s government. ing that under Trumpcare, 14 million out of the box is being sold, in part, in ized since it was passed seven years fewer people will be insured in 2018. stereotypically Republican terms, and that person be and What’s equally pathetic is watching ago. But they’re having a devilish time the opposition dither. We all recognize The early signs aren’t encouraging. by Trump’s own team. why? coming up with one of their own that the ridiculous bungling that marked It is true that health insurance isn’t a Before going further down this road, A. The Director of the doesn’t make things worse. the Democrats’ election campaigns, panacea. There is an academic debate they should think about why Trump, It’s hard to blame them for preferring about whether having health insurance with his keen gut-level political instinct, CIA. It would be fasci- but it’s also obvious that they learned not to be identified with their Amer- absolutely nothing from their dismal leads to longer lives, and all sorts of never told audiences or interviewers nating to have access ican Health Care Act, which is the failures. They’re still running around, factors besides insurance affect health that he’d be fine with fewer people hav- to international intelli- official title of their slapped-together crashing into each other with their and the quality of medical care (geog- ing insurance, and adjust their rhetoric and their plan accordingly.