Author Archives: Peter Zelchenko

To the editor: I introduced Michael Miner to Leah Pietrusiak and the story of Citylink[Hot Type, July 23] because I felt it was the most recent addition to a larger chapter in local journalism. The near northwest side has lacked a proper newspaper throughout the period of the area’s greatest social and economic resurgence, between […]

To the editor: I’m sorry that Ben Joravsky decided that the article “Border War” (December 21) should be heavy on personalities and light on what really matters. Though it makes for a more colorful story, this should not have been about two developers, in a love triangle with the alderman, getting macho over a couple […]

To the editors: John Stevenson wrote an excellent review of Michael O’Malley’s book, Keeping Watch: A History of American Time [“Reading: Good Time, Bad Time,” November 30]. However, I feel that Stevenson’s counterpoints to O’Malley’s lamentations about industrialization betray a narrow view shared by the majority in our society. To my mind, there can be […]