City Council passed Evanston’s budget and tax levy for fiscal year 2025 at its Monday evening meeting, with property taxes set to remain flat for another year. The revised budget presented at the meeting totaled about $395.6 million for expenditures and operating transfers out — a decrease of...
Since Election Day more than two weeks ago, several Northwestern professors have spoken at events about the reasons behind Donald Trump’s decisive victory — and the potential impacts of his second term. The Daily interviewed some of these professors on their perspectives surrounding Republicans’ recent election wins. LAUREL HARBRIDGE-YONG: Many Democrats saw democracy as being on the ballot, something that had helped them in 2022 when a lot of the election deniers in the Republican Party lost. And so there was this thought, I think, among some Democrats that that, combined with Trump’s attacks on minorities, on women’s rights, on LGBT communities, on a whole bunch of other groups,...
