Chicago-based freelance photographer arrested, charged at Gary ICE protest Saturday #nwindiana #nwi #hoosierbsky #posttribune @chicagotribune.com

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/19/photographer-among-trio-arrested-at-gary-airport-deportation-protest/

P-T's @mayawilkinss.bsky.social found that former Cal Twp Trustee Kim Robinson had a man who died in 2022 on the lease in question

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/05/ex-calumet-township-trustee-didnt-list-son-as-resident-of-gary-apartment-she-used-funds-for/

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Uran announced his 12/31/23 resignation 12/218/23; the contract says he can cancel it in writing upon 60 days, and there's no severance listed in the contract when he resigns -- only if he's fired

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-sscva-mtg-st-0114-20240113-5fvymw2mofgohb3yveb4j4ns44-story.html

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SSCVA hires interim president and CEO, decides on severance for former CEO David Uran

The former South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority president and CEO will be able to negotiate up to nine months of severance after leaving the position last month.

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NWI professor, activist Lorrell Kilpatrick remembered for her fierce advocacy

Longtime Northwest Indiana activist and professor Lorrell D. Kilpatrick died unexpectedly Friday morning after a medical emergency, Everybody Counts Inc. President and CEO Teresa Torres confirmed.

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Second racist Zoom bombing in Lake County in a week, this time in my hometown (this one added anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, though) https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-munster-mtg-epithets-st-1122-20231121-dbmtnxyi7vgvjp7c7qztw3sbye-story.html #nwindiana #northwestindiana #nwi #posttribune #HoosierMast
Munster meeting interrupted by racial, anti-gay slurs

Racial epithets and an anti-gay slur interrupted the Zoom broadcast of Monday’s Munster Redevelopment Commission meeting, and town officials are trying to find out who it was.

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HIghland viewers will now have to watch meetings on Facebook or possibly Youtube because "Bad people do stupid things and ruin it for everyone."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-highland-council-racism-folo-st-1117-20231116-uj4lol7dq5aohilafcrom37sbq-story.html

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Highland institutes new Zoom rules after racial epithet broadcast during council meeting

Highland residents and others who use the Zoom platform to view Town Council meetings and study sessions will no longer have that privilege after someone used it to post a racial epithet during Monday night’s meeting.

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Highland Police investigating racial epithet broadcast during council meeting

Highland Police are investigating the identity of the person who snuck a screenshot of a video with a racial epithet through an online meeting platform during the Highland Town Council meeting Monday night.

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Highland GOP councilman gets party blowback for endorsing Dem clerk-treasurer

A Highland councilman is expected to be stripped of his precinct committee position after publicly endorsing the town’s Democratic Clerk-Treasurer candidate in the upcoming general election.

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‘They don’t care who they are killing’: Northwest Indiana reacts to weekend attack on Israel by Hamas

The Jewish community in Northwest Indiana and its supporters reflected, gathered, prayed and shared collective outrage Monday over the weekend attacks on Israel by Hamas, in which hundreds of Israelis died and countless others, including women, children and the elderly, were kidnapped.

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The conversations have been happening for months and no one's ready to cop to it, but the wheels are turning to pick Lake Co. Sheriff Oscar Martinez's replacement if he's convicted in February

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-sheriff-succession-plan-st-0921-20230920-b35sln5xgbhwnd3wknio5xghve-story.html #nwindiana #northwestindiana #nwi #posttribune #HoosierMast

Lake County Dems mulling succession plan if sheriff convicted

Lake County’s Democratic Party chairman confirmed this week there have been behind the scenes machinations among some in the party for a possible caucus succession plan in the event of a felony conviction of Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr.

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