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Posted inBlogs

Comptroller Susana Mendoza and Governor Bruce Rauner continue battle over finances, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd March 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, federal authorities aren’t prosecuting as many gun cases in Chicago as they are in other cities.

Posted inBlogs

John Oliver takes aim at Tronc

by Jake Malooley August 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Last Week Tonight hilariously skewers the former Tribune Publishing.

Posted inBlogs

Ferro or Gannett—a Tribune choice too painful to think about

by Michael Miner May 3, 2016August 18, 2021

Employees at the paper consider these alternate future scenarios.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner, Tribune—make a deal!

by Michael Miner October 14, 2015August 18, 2021

Here’s an idea: State government and the paper should swap homes.

Posted inBlogs

Freak show—the sisterhood of the Chicago Tribune and LA Times

by Michael Miner September 25, 2015August 18, 2021

At Tribune Publishing, LA can’t abide Chicago.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rauner attacks Madigan’s clout while his pals benefit from it

by Ben Joravsky June 17, 2015August 18, 2021

Donors to the governor get help from the speaker’s property tax game.

Posted inBlogs

Governor Rauner’s Democratic allies roll a Trojan Horse into town

by Ben Joravsky April 30, 2015August 18, 2021

While I was distracted by Chicago’s epic mayoral election, Governor Rauner fired the opening salvos in his war against helping people with autism.

Posted inBlogs

The Point: Is the new New Republic published in Chicago?

by Michael Miner February 24, 2015August 18, 2021

A local journal lays claim to the literary tradition of the New Republic.

Posted inBlogs

Bruce Rauner climbs into the top ten list of Chicago’s political bullies

by Mick Dumke October 28, 2014August 18, 2021

How the GOP candidate for governor compares with other political figures who like to push people around.

Posted inBlogs

Has Tribune Publishing left the morons behind?

by Michael Miner August 7, 2014August 18, 2021

Staffers wonder whether the Hartford Courant will survive the breakup of the Tribune Company.

Posted inBlogs

Lyric makes a big announcement, CSO makes a bigger one

by Deanna Isaacs June 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Lyric Opera announces new music, CSO announces new money

Veteran journalist Rick Kogan: "I have never had any kind of exit strategy or career path. I don't quite live paycheck to paycheck, but close enough."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist

by Michael Miner May 1, 2013August 19, 2021

Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist.

Posted inBlogs

On the Tribune covering the Tribune

by Michael Miner January 17, 2013August 18, 2021

The Chicago Tribune‘s terrific series on itself deserves book, HBO treatments.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Unlovable losers

by Ben Joravsky September 1, 2011August 19, 2021

The latest scheme to spend public money on Wrigley Field is as bad as the team that plays there

James O'Shea
Posted inColumns & Opinion

James O’Shea narrates the Tribune Company’s epic collapse

by Michael Miner June 30, 2011August 19, 2021

Days before my review copy of James O’Shea’s The Deal From Hell came in the mail, a friend who’d read an excerpt of O’Shea’s account of the Tribune Company-Times Mirror merger and its calamitous aftermath e-mailed me to rip the author. At issue: O’Shea’s failure to be up-front about the friendship between his ex-boss Ann […]

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