The April 29 Hot Type creates the false impression that La Raza’s Jorge Oclander supplied the Tribune with documents that were used in our reports on the Board of Education building at 5151 W. Madison St. That simply isn’t true, and Michael Miner knew it. Mr. Oclander may be the rock-steady, dogged investigator that Miner […]
Author Archives: David Jackson
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Reporter Wronged
To the editors: In his feature on the benefits of mainstreaming (“Out of Exile and Into Oblivion?,” July 16), Robert McClory seriously misrepresented a series I wrote for the Tribune. Since he called it a five-part series, I’m assuming McClory didn’t read the whole thing. He quoted a school official who said I was “inaccurate […]
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Just One Black
Can Lu Palmer’s plebiscite unite black Chicago behind a single mayoral candidate?
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George Flynn Is a Punk Rocker; Different Drummond
George Flynn Is a Punk Rocker George Flynn, chairman of the Department of Musicianship Studies at DePaul University’s School of Music, holding the rank of professor, was born about 30 years too soon to be a punk rocker. And he was born in the wrong place. Flynn was born, in 1937, in Miles City, Montana, […]
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The 600-Pound Gorilla of the 43rd Ward/Late-Breaking News/
The 600-Pound Gorilla of the 43rd Ward In the past year and a half, nightclub comedian Aaron Freeman has submitted about 15 pieces to the Tribune‘s op-ed page. Almost all of them have been published. “A few of them we didn’t publish,” says the page’s editor, Richard Leifer, “because basically they just didn’t strike me […]