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CN December 6, 2012
Jesse Ruiz was appointed Vice President of the Chicago School Board when Mayor Emanuel took office. Two years and one teachers’ strike later, his Board is facing a budget shortfall of nearly a billion dollars, stubbornly intransigent academic improvement, and … Continue reading
CN November 29, 2012
It’s hard to keep track of how many candidates are currently in the 2nd District race, because people are declaring and dropping out almost every hour. Rich Miller (Capitol Fax) says Donne Trotter has the edge, because he’s close to … Continue reading
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CN November 22, 2012
The exit polls and political analysis from Nov. 6 all seem to agree that younger voters played a key role in Barack Obama’s re-election. It was a bit unexpected – the conventional wisdom was that younger voters were turned off … Continue reading
CN November 15, 2012
Public pensions take the spotlight in today’s discussion, featuring Mayoral Tutorial‘s Don Washington and education blogger Fred Klonsky. At the urging of many activists and civic groups, the referendum issue on the state ballot last week that would have restricted … Continue reading
CN November 1, 2012
It’s our pre-election program, but there are very few races on the Chicago ballot this time. Charlie Meyerson (independent journalist and blogger, Northwestern University) and Curtis Black (Newstips.org) talk about the upcoming referenda covering public-employee pensions and the push for … Continue reading
CN October 18, 2012
Miguel Del Valle was very pleased with Barack Obama’s performance on the second presidential debate. The first one, not so much. “Having served with Barack for eight years, the individual who showed up for the first debate was State Senator … Continue reading
CN October 11, 2012
Mayor Emanuel has released his 2014 budget, and, despite the fact that there was vey little traditional community input beforehand, it has been accepted so far with relatively little criticism. In fact, editorials in the dailies were fairly positive, acknowledging … Continue reading
CN October 4, 2012
At Wednesday’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney, explaining what would be his energy policy, said the following: Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. On government land, your … Continue reading
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