Riding off the beaten tracks

02/08/2012

One great thing about hockey is the camaraderie. I’ve met some really interesting people through the league including a theater director, an economist, a franchisee, some teachers, as well as guys in pharma, auto and steel pipe sales.
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Cancer survivors lose out in remap

02/01/2012

Every single member of every minority group in this city has been playing the race card for years. Sometimes it is played effectively, other times not. The race card was played again in the remap process.
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Working together to improve the South Loop

02/01/2012

I was pleased to speak recently with 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti and am glad to hear he remains committed to improving the infrastructure of the South Loop. Because our wards are so close to one another, Bob and I have had the opportunity to work together since 2007 on many of these projects.
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For Pete's sake

02/01/2012

We don’t even know what to say about Pete’s Fresh Market any more. This project has dragged on for so long with such little activity, and it seems sometimes like nothing will ever happen.
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Sorting out the new ward boundaries

01/25/2012

I’ve never seen my South Loop neighbors as emotional as they’ve been since the City of Chicago ward remap passed the city council 41 to 8 last week. The levels of both elation and despair have reached heights unsurpassed by the grandest of the grand opera. You can hear both cheers and the wails on the streets of Big Bill Dawson’s old stomping grounds.
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A shameful new map

01/25/2012

So, Chicago’s new ward map finally official, and just as everyone feared, it’s a horribly contorted, gerrymandered atrocity.
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Judges for sale in Cook County

01/18/2012

Hey bud, would you like to buy a judge? Judges in Illinois can be bought by cash or votes. The Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Cook County buys judges with the promise of votes, naming them to the party’s official slate in exchange for implicit support.
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New ward boundaries turn Chicago into political sausage

01/11/2012

Well neighbors, here we are in the final stretch of legislative redistricting and reapportionment that takes place every 10 years after the census. Do you feel the excitement? I don't.
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Crane boosters miss chance

01/11/2012

The Chicago Public Schools hearing on Crane High School's closure was designed to be a rote affair. A dry, drab presentation, read directly from PowerPoint slides set it up, and we were expecting to see people rant predictably for two minutes at a time before being pulled away from the microphone with a hook.
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Malcolm X's remake a great fit

01/04/2012

We're on board with the new plan for Malcolm X College. For too long, Chicago's city colleges have been a place of last resort, where too few emerge from the system with a degree or any sort of useful experience.
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