Author Archives: Ken

Only a few hours before appearing on our show, The Better Government Association’s  Andy Shaw had moderated a mayoral forum on education issues.  He re-capped some of the forum’s highlights, including the debate over James Meeks’ proposal to give 50,000 … Continue reading →

Cindi Canary joins us today to talk about how new campaign finance laws will affect the municipal elections, come January 1. She’s director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, and she tells us that, especially in the runoff election, … Continue reading →

We have a broad spectrum of political voices on the show this week, but they all agree on one thing : vast expansion of gambling in Illinois is simply bad public policy.  Oh, and they’re feeling pretty positively about Miguel … Continue reading →

Despite the host’s proposal to devote the entire half-hour to a discussion of Apple’s world-stopping acquisition of the rights to Beatles’ downloads, the guests insisted on talking about other things. Those included Terry Mazany’s appointment Ron Huberman’s emporary replacement at … Continue reading →

We get a chance to look at Tuesday’s election with a two-day perspective on today’s show. At taping time the Joe Walsh/Melissa Bean race was still officially undecided, as was the Governor’s race. But Pat Quinn had what appeared to … Continue reading →

It’s our election preview show, and this week we turn to Rebecca Sanchez, political columnist for Extra Bilingual Newspaper, and  John Dempsey, morning news anchor and reporter for WLS-AM. Although there are so many state, county and national elections to … Continue reading →

This week we turn to two veteran journalists and observers of the Chicago political and business scene. Dan Miller is currently a senior policy advisor to the Heartland Institute, and has been an editor at Crain’s and the business editor … Continue reading →

This week we talk about the recent “New News 2010” report prepared by the Community Media Workshop. We also discuss the Lee Abrams/Randy Michaels controversy at the Tribune (recorded prior top Abrams’ resignation). The New News report was funded by … Continue reading →

A discussion of the week’s news with a focus on the governor’s race. Guests: Monroe Anderson, journalist and cyber-columnist Fernando Diaz, Editor, Hoy Chris Robling, political commentator, WGN-TV