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This is outrageous treatment. There are already so few Arab and Palestinian journalists in our city and country, and those few face constant battles. It's shameful to fire someone for simply doing their job.

Landlords in the Chicago area are using real estate software made by a tech company that may be engaging in an illegal price-fixing scheme to drive up rents, according to federal lawsuits. w/ Andjela Padejski: wbez.org/data/2024/10/2…

Scoop w/Kiel Porter: EV maker Rivian, despite having only one factory and around 8,000 staff, has racked up more initial "serious" OSHA safety violations than any other automaker since the start of last year. Unpaywalled link to our investigation: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

This story from Nina Elkadi is so important, lead is an issue now and any delay means more exposure. There is no safe level of lead exposure. Also, this is an improvement over the original carveout which would have given Chicago 40 years to replace lead pipes instead of 20.

And...if you suspect your building is using RealPage and want to chat, my DMs are open. Email works too: [email protected]

My story about The University of Chicago's decision to suspend and evict an Arab student who was arrested -- not convicted -- at a protest against Israel's onslaught of Gaza. WBEZ Open Campus wbez.org/education/2024…

The city hired or promoted 490 employees in the 6 weeks since Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a hiring freeze. CPD saw the most new hires, but promotions and hires spanned depts, including the mayor’s office and City Council. wbez.org/city-hall/2024… w/ Mariah Woelfel amyqin.bsky.social

📣 Access to fertility treatments like IVF is vastly unequal across Illinois (and much of the U.S.) Voters can help change that. amyqin.bsky.social and I break it down. tinyurl.com/yc35euwa WBEZ Lindsay Allen Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

A majority of voters in the inaugural Chicago school board elections may not be CPS parents, or parents at all, a WBEZ analysis finds. W/ Anna Savchenko and Sarah Karp wbez.org/education/2024…

Who gets fertility treatment including IVF in Illinois the most. In other words, access: * Newborns whose moms have private insurance * Asian & white women * College educated A ballot measure hopes to make access more equal, via me & amyqin.bsky.social WBEZ: tinyurl.com/336p9akz

We are back on the picket line outside The New York Times for day 4 of our ULP strike! We are fighting for fair pay, remote worker protections and just cause, and we are not backing down!

Good evening from Chicago Union Station!!!! Photographer Pat Nabong and I are riding the very first run of Amtrak's Floridian train from Chicago to Miami for the Chicago Sun-Times. We'll be on the train for 46 hours (at least). I'll live tweet the journey here ⬇️

With Trump's plans to target trans people + others, IL lawmakers have been working to make protections for gender affirming care and reproductive rights airtight. I spoke to legal experts, trans people and lawmakers about what's next for Chicago Sun-Times. 1/8 chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/11/…

For those who don’t know, the New York Times tech guild who code all the games (Wordle, Connections, etc) are on strike! They were kind enough to build a website with strike editions of the games and some info on the strike itself! nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-bui…

The implications for nonprofit newsrooms are ... alarming: "H.R. 9495, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a 'terrorist supporting organization.'" theintercept.com/2024/11/10/tru…

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Hi everyone! During the end of Election Week, I learned that Illinois Answers Project Better Government Association was terminating the education beat due to editorial changes. I was laid off immediately. 🧵

Trump made inroads in Chicago not just b/c many communities shifted right, but more so b/c of a staggering drop-off in the number of Democratic votes cast for Harris vs Biden wbez.org/government-pol…