Author: Ray Hanania

Ray Hanania is an award-winning opinion columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland. His award winning columns can be found at www.HANANIA.COM Subscribe FREE today Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing. Email Ray Hanania at [email protected]. Follow RayHanania at Twitter

Lipinski and Hanania launch the “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast

August 29, 2021September 1, 2021 Ray Hanania No Comments

Lipinski and Hanania launch the “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast The “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast to offer Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side with former Congressman Bill Lipinski and former Chicago City Hall reporter and syndicated columnist Ray Hanania. Listen to the first episode below Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania have partnered to offer a…

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Bush-Cheney war in Iraq is cause of US humiliation in Afghanistan

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021 Ray Hanania No Comments

Bush-Cheney war in Iraq is cause of US humiliation in Afghanistan Who is responsible for the humiliating, chaotic and under-assault withdrawal that the United States is making from Afghanistan? Former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and even President Barack Obama deserve blame. But defeat was set by President George W. Bush and Vice President…

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Palos Preserves Named the World’s Largest Urban Night Sky Place

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

Palos Preserves Named the World’s Largest Urban Night Sky Place Forest Preserves of Cook County and Adler Planetarium earn the Urban Night Sky Place designation, awarded by the International Dark-Sky Association, for a 6,662-acre site in Southwest Cook County August 25, 2021—The Forest Preserves of Cook County’s Palos Preserves has been designated the largest Urban…

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Son’s enthusiasm for new KIA Niro car is K.I.A.

August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Ray Hanania 2 Comments

Son’s enthusiasm for new KIA Niro car is K.I.A. Buying my first car as a kid was an exciting experience that every young person should have. That didn’t happen for my son, who purchased a KIA believing that he could help save the environment. Instead, the KIA has been giving him all kinds of problems,…

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Chicago leaders and legislators urge safer return for Chicago school students

August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 Ray Hanania No Comments

Chicago leaders and legislators urge safer return for Chicago school students As members of the General Assembly and City Council who represent Chicago communities, including some of us who are parents or guardians of CPS students, we submit the following recommendations to aid in maintaining the highest level of health safety as teachers, staff, administrators,…

Chicago, coronavirus, Education, Government, Health, News

T-Mobile admits major data breach of customer information

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Ray Hanania No Comments

T-Mobile admits major data breach of customer information T-Mobile notified hundreds of thousands of its customers on Friday August 20, 2021 that “a bad actor” breached their data files and obtained a wide range of information on T-Mobile customers that included social security information, names, addresses but not credit cards. The data breach apparently took…

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Difficulties with Macho Themes for WordPress

August 21, 2021October 17, 2021 Ray Hanania No Comments

Difficulties with Macho Themes for WordPress NewsMag from Macho Themes is a broken theme and you should avoid purchasing it from MachoThemes.com. The “Pro” Theme I purchased was a burden and took forever to load and offered very few options for design. By Ray Hanania I purchased Macho Themes NewsMag website hoping to update the…

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Leving team reunites dad with sons after all contact cut off

August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Ray Hanania No Comments

Leving team reunites dad with sons after all contact cut off A great dad who was very involved in his young sons’ lives – ages 3 and 5 – suddenly found himself cut off entirely from them for no reason at all, according to court documents. Devastated, he turned to attorney Jeffery M. Leving, founder…