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Posted inColumns & Opinion

The argument for self-interest

by Ben Joravsky October 13, 2020August 18, 2021

Vote yes on the Fair Tax to cut your taxes!

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Funding schools with property taxes hurts Chicago students

by Ben Joravsky July 6, 2016August 18, 2021

Case in point: Wealthy Winnetka spends at least $7,000 more per pupil.

Posted inBlogs

The Lisagors need rethinking

by Michael Miner May 12, 2016August 18, 2021

The Chicago Headline Club’s local journalism awards are run by obsolete guidelines.

Posted inBlogs

And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to the right picture

by Michael Miner March 1, 2016August 18, 2021

Spotlight deserved to win.

Posted inBlogs

Propped-together dailies make a melancholy sight

by Michael Miner September 8, 2015August 18, 2021

“Our local papers make a melancholy sight leaning against each other for support.” Media critic Mike Miner looks at the new Sun-Times/Daily Herald content-sharing agreement.

Posted inBlogs

Slash today, bleed tomorrow—the Tribune cheers on Governor Rauner

by Michael Miner April 14, 2015August 18, 2021

The Tribune likes what it hears from Rauner.

Posted inBlogs

Former Senate hopeful Jack Ryan is back in politics—as a publisher

by Michael Miner November 25, 2014August 18, 2021

A sex-free sex scandal pushed him out of the ’04 Senate race against Obama, but Jack Ryan is back.

Randy Steidl, who was released from prison after 17 years, speaks at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Schaumburg in 2010.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

What really happened in Paris, Illinois?

by Michael Miner November 5, 2013August 19, 2021

With a pardon at stake, two wrongful convictions in a double murder case get the reverse spin.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner announces he’s running for governor, doesn’t mention Payton Prep charge

by Steve Bogira June 5, 2013August 19, 2021

On a Republican hopeful, and the issue he hopes will go away.

Posted inBlogs

Mudslinging at the Rauner exploratory campaign for governor

by Steve Bogira May 8, 2013August 19, 2021

“I scare politicians in both parties,” Bruce Rauner says.

Posted inBlogs

Bill Granger, RIP

by Michael Miner April 23, 2012August 19, 2021

Journalist and author Bill Granger dies

Douglas Ray, publisher of Daily Herald
Posted inColumns & Opinion

On pay walls and other potential signs of life

by Michael Miner September 8, 2011August 19, 2021

Reporters in Chicago are too busy getting their mojo back to be bummed about the biz

Posted inBlogs

Preckwinkle appoints Cox

by Michael Miner June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Ted Cox named deputy communications director to Toni Preckwinkle

Posted inBlogs

Layoffs of People We Know

by Michael Miner March 22, 2011August 19, 2021

More layoffs include the Daily Herald’s Ted Cox. Jim Bouton, “Ball Four”

Posted inBlogs

More layoffs at the Daily Herald

by Michael Miner March 26, 2009August 19, 2021

Debt from new printing plant forces more layoffs at the Daily Herald.

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