By Ty Ross What began as a way to ensure workers the ability to earn the most basic of incomes, yet provide for themselves and a family, has become little more than a pawn in today’s partisan politics game. Increasing steadily since 1938, a minimum wage worker through the years, could work part-time, save for […]
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Why It May Be Time To Do Away With Black History Month…


By Ty Ross When I was a kid in the late ‘70s early ‘80s, schools hadn’t long been desegregated in the south. Black History Month consisted of a few blurbs about Martin Luther King Jr. and not much else. My grandfather, born in 1933 rural North Carolina, had a 3rd grade education so it was […]
Weird and Wacky Habits of Past Presidents


By Ty Ross President’s Day was on Monday, so what better way to celebrate some of our past presidents than by highlighting a few of their quirks. A day that would normally be honored with both local and national parades paying tribute to present and former presidents but was instead overshadowed by impeachment trial and […]
Before Michael Jordan, There Was Lou Malnati in Chicago!


By Ty Ross Long before Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and the once unstoppable Bulls. Decades the history making election of the 44th President of the United States. There was pizza. But not just any pizza, Chicago Pizza. Chicago and pizza go hand in hand. Like peanut butter and jelly, or Sonny and Cher. All thanks […]