Singers’ press releases we were afraid to finish: “With a voice as wide as the barrel of a .357 Magnum…”
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They have their reasons. “DCFS is often criticized for not stepping in and removing children more often in order to protect them,” writes DCFS worker I. Richard Zemon in Illinois Politics (August). “We must not lose sight of a very fundamental aspect of human development. Even in abusive homes, there is generally a bonding that exists between child and parent. For anyone to tear that bond asunder can be more damaging than the abusive incident. No doubt many of us could take many of those kids and provide a life many times more enriched, more caring, than the ones they are in now. But…most of the time, the child would rather stay at home because those are the ones s/he loves. By law, there must be severe risk, urgent and immediate necessity, to remove children.”
The two most inconvenient wild animals in Illinois, according to the state Department of Conservation: raccoons (26 percent of the nuisance-animal-removal permits issued in 1992) and beavers (22 percent).
From the mouths of playwrights: “I wrote this play as if it were a vendetta” (T & A Productions press release).
