Editor’s Note: At the present moment a small, but passionate group of community members on Chicago’s South Side are well into their third week of a hunger strike aimed at Mayor Rahm Emanuel in an attempt to get him to… Read More ›
Rahm Emanuel
Days 2 & 3: Americana & A Block Party At Rahm’s House
While you were taking part in the great American pastime of gorging yourself on various encased meats and adult beverages, about 200 folks in Chicago were engaging in another great American tradition, namely taking to the streets and telling their… Read More ›
A Modest Appraisal
On The Occasion of The Chicago Public School Board’s Glorious Disemboweling of Fifty Particularly Bothersome Pieces of Educational Detritus. I must say, it has warmed the cockles of my imperceptibly beating and pacemakered heart to see the musty nether regions… Read More ›
Chicago Teachers Learn How To Hold ‘Em…And Possibly Fold ‘Em
A couple of years ago, I was interviewed for a position at a public school in Cincinnati. The job was some bizarre franken-mesh of an English teacher and an IT guy that sounded as if it had been pulled out… Read More ›