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Tag Archives: Thom Clark
CN May 25 2017
What will a tronc-absorbed Sun-Times and Reader look like? Does anybody believe the claims that tronc will allow both to operate their own newsrooms independently? With Sun-Times circulation dropping below 130,000 per day, there are more people watching the ten-o’clock … Continue reading
CN Feb. 5, 2015
Our thanks to Thom Clark for leading this week’s discussion with the Tribune’s John McCarron and Salim Muwakkil of WVON and In These Times. On the table this week: issues that might be factors in the Mayor’s race. These include ways … Continue reading
CN Sep 4, 2014
Our panel on this, our fourth anniversary broadcast, spent some time kicking around the upcoming big elections – U.S. Senator and Governor. But there’s a sense that the 2014 mid-terms, so critical for the country, are little more than a warm-up … Continue reading
CN Jan 9, 2013
As 2014 settles into its groove, the economy, jobs and wages continue to the the major topics for so many Chicagoans. In the last few days we saw Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner opine that the minimum wage … Continue reading
CN Sep 12, 2013
So why do we keep talking about eradicating the “billion dollar deficit” at CPS by taking away benefits from teachers? Why can’t we lay the blame with Mayor Daley, Paul Vallas and the complicit legislators who allowed tax levies specifically … Continue reading
CN March 21, 2013
Well, it’s official. 30,000 CPS students will be moved around in September as 61 buildings close and even more are turned over to private operators. And in Uptown and the City’s northeast, thousands of units of low-income housing are being … 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 April 12, 2012
The largest municipal election in the country is coming down to its final week, and voting begins next Thursday – right here in Chicago. You didn’t know? Well, it’s the 11th Local School Council election, in which thousands of seats … Continue reading
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CN April 17, 2014
The Sun-Times made some news this week as it announced that it was, for the time being, shutting off its comment boards. Editor Craig Newman said that the boards at his own newspaper “too often turn into a morass … Continue reading →