Author Archives: Robert Bartell

To the editors: So many inaccuracies about me and my Ward were printed in the April 8th letter-to-the-editor signed by Austin Wyman, Ronald Smith, and Jacob Pomeranz that I feel compelled to reply. That letter was in response to my letter of February 26 in which I stated that my alderman, Kathy Osterman (48th), often […]

To the editors: Reading Ben Joravsky’s piece on the debate about the Edgewater strip mall [Neighborhood News, January 15] gave me a queasy sense of deja vu. Again, Alderman Osterman was making decisions without the counsel of her constituents, and again, she doesn’t understand why any of them would have any reason to be upset […]