Category: Letters

“You are the specialized bureaucracy in this helter-skelter pluralist society of opinion.”

In addition to being a great talent, Ryan was a courageous man of admirable integrity, a “fighting liberal” unbowed by HUAC or any threats to his career.

To me, this is just more rabble rousing. I get it: you don’t like TIFs.

Let’s get this on the record and together let’s examine our aldermen’s fav excuse for their lack of spine, I’m sick of it.

“Hey Ben Joravsky, the powers that be are beginning to recognize that Chicago’s transit facilities are inadequate to transport all the attendees to Olympic events”

Bad Examples Re: The Olympics: What’s In It for the Arts? by Deanna Isaacs, September 10 “The bid committee argues that this is a ‘reasonable projection given other Chicago-area philanthropic contributions to projects such as Millennium Park,’ according to a recent report commissioned by the Civic Federation.” If they’re holding up Millennium Park as an […]

Maybe next time you’ll wait until AFTER you talk to someone with actual knowledge of the situation before you throw a rumor with no real information but a sensationalized headline out on the Internet and cause a panic among hundreds of workers.

If Hoffman makes it to Washington, what muscle stays behind to effectively police local corruption in Illinois and Chicago?

When it comes to learning about what our aldermen and other elected officials are up to, I think we should adopt a six-word motto: the more, the sooner, the better.

Why you think you’re entitled to, or would even want to, sit in broken glass spilling PBR on your ironic t-shirts is beyond me.

The Register slashed and slashed under Gannett, and profits soared in the first few years. In fact, Gannett has made a bundle over the years with the same formula in market after market.