“Responsible people benefit from the drug war,” laments drug-legalization crusader James Gierach of suburban Oak Lawn–“prison contractors, prison guards, drug-treatment providers, drug-testing firms, 100,000 new policemen and legislative budgeteers, whose city and state coffers are gilded with zero-tolerant, mandatory-minimum, three-striking, gang-fighting, juvenile-detaining, liberty-eroding Washington dollars….Not only does money drive the illicit drug business, it drives the drug war too.”
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“Increased wounding of fish by the sea lamprey [in Lake Michigan] has been noticed,” reports the Splash, official publication of the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Wisconsin. “The sea lamprey, thought to be under control, has apparently been doing more damage on the fishery….The wounding rate on the northern part of the lake is approaching the wounding rate of the 1950’s, when lamprey control began.”
“I know at least five students who don’t drop out because they can express themselves in music,” Amundsen High School choir director Bill Spain tells Catalyst’s Maureen Kelleher (June). “I end up with the troublemakers. Most of the other staff here don’t understand how I can do that, but those kids want to be here. They will do their best in their classes because I insist.”
