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To the editors: As one of Richard A. Rinella’s clients, I find it necessary to comment on the biased article by Rob Warden and James Tuohy titled “Legally Screwed: Women v. Rinella and the Case Against Lawyer-Client Sex” (October 1) which unjustly employed grossly sensationalistic measures in an attempt to damage the credibility and fine […]

To the editors: I am disappointed that Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, an excellent writer, chose the easy path in her article on the City Colleges of Chicago. While nominally balanced, the effect of the story is to wave away the complexities of the practical issues for a story about a business leader run amuck in his […]

To the editors: I read your article on the so-called “justice” that goes on at 26th and California [“Halls of Justice,” January 8]. As a relative of someone recently killed, I know firsthand that there is no consideration for the victims of a crime, much less their survivors. Case in point: Three days after the […]

To the editors: Harold Henderson’s article on the Church of Scientology vs CAN (Cult Awareness Network) [October 16] is disappointing in that it fails to shed light on what Scientology fanaticism is all about and deceptive in that it does not accurately disclose what Scientology courses really cost. Fortunately for the Chicago area, there is […]

To the editors: Thanks for your piece [Neighborhood News, May 1] about Pam Gore and her low rent hotels. More could (and should) be written not only about the hotels but about low income rental housing. The few private entrepreneurs still running low rent multiunit buildings are a disappearing species. We are being driven out […]

To the editors: Re: The City File, January 3. Second Entry. Let’s see here. A few months ago [October 4] the Reader featured an article which promoted the views of virologist Peter Duesberg, who claims that AIDS is not an STD, but a disease of drug use. Then in the City File, you scold gay […]

To the editors: Your feature article in last week’s Reader, “Everything You Know About AIDS Is Wrong” [October 4], made me mad as hell. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not your fault. On the contrary, you made a brave and important contribution to our community. Steve Heimoff did an outstanding job of researching his questions […]

To the editors: Your article of May 24, “The Sins of the Fathers,” deserves and demands a response. A response not just of outrage and a feeling of betrayal, which it merits, but of some reflection. How and where did the American Church go so wrong? Because if even a portion of what Jason Berry […]

To the editors: It is a strange event when someone involved in theater feels compelled to rise to the defense of a critic, but the discussion that has been swirling around in your letters section [March 29 and April 26] regarding Mary Shen Barnidge and her review of Make Yer Bed and Lie seems to […]

To the editors: I am so angry about Mary Shen Barnidge’s review of Make Yer Bed and Lie [March 15] that it has taken me almost four weeks to write a reasonable response to it. I am a survivor of child sexual abuse and incest. And I am going to send a copy of Ms. […]

To the editors: The Neighborhood News story running in the recent Reader [March 15] about Oscar Mayer School reflects a public relations campaign waged to attract more “upscale” kids. Unfortunately, this PR effort is so important to a small group of parents and to the new principal (Bob Blitstein) that they are willing to sacrifice […]

To the editors: After reading Ms. Mary Shen Barnidge’s review of Anita Stenger’s Make Yer Bed and Lie [March 15], I couldn’t help but garnish “nurturing attention and adulation for the confessor.” Think of the hell Ms. Barnidge must endure to “fabricate” her “vague, enigmatic, and largely unprovable memories” of all these performances about incest. […]

To the editors: I am the author of the letter published in your August 3, 1990, issue headlined “Fetishists of the Holocaust.” In response to the two letters “Holocaust Letter Not Kosher” and “Confidential to Name Withheld” published August 17, 1990, in reply to mine: 1. Whether Mr. Taber (“Holocaust Letter Not Kosher”) likes it […]

To the editors: Bryan Miller’s interview with Peter Dominowski (6/22) sickened me. I will affirm that MOST WFMT listeners are/were “soldered” to ‘FMT, with occasional segues to WBEZ, and more rarely to WNIB. The man, “Dumbowski,” epitomizes the descent into mediocrity that is obvious in every area of American culture, both “high” and so-called “popular.” […]