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Issue of Mar. 5 – 11, 2009
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Upon further inspection

by Mick Dumke

The debate (if you want to call it that) over the latest proposal to strengthen the role of the inspector general centers on whether the office should be allowed to investigate aldermen. But the effectiveness of the measure really hinges on a provision that would expand the office’s budget and shield it from a politically inspired axe. The proposal from Joe Moore and his allies would do more than protect the office’s budget–it would hike it dramatically. This year it would go up 50 percent, from $5.9 million to nearly $9 million.

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Some love for Afghan Kabob

by Mike Sula

Before landing here in Chicago in 1982 Nasir Raufi and his wife fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for Iran, and then Germany. He owned a furniture store for a long time, then he opened Afghan Kabob almost three years ago at the intersection of Elston and Montrose. As far as I know it’s the only Afghan restaurant in the region, ever since the demise of Devon Avenue’s Afghan Restaurant, and the (supposedly) in-the-process relocation of Skokie’s Kabul House. Its novelty may be part of the reason they pull in a multiethnic range of customers from all over the city and suburbs, but it’s more likely the solid, careful execution of his country’s cuisine that keeps them coming back.

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A peek inside the local fashion industry

by Heather Kenny

Attendance at last night’s Inside Chicago Fashion panel discussion should have been mandatory for students of the city’s many fashion design programs. Local designer Anna Fong revealed that if she had to do it all over again, she would have majored in business and minored in fashion at Columbia College, calling her job 90 percent business and 10 percent design.

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Whet Moser — a must read

by Michael Miner

The best piece of thinking and writing that I’ve seen emerge from the Chicago Journalism Town Hall is the long blog essay by the Reader’s Whet Moser that’s running on the cover of this week’s print edition. Moser walks us through journalism in the online era, explaining some things that aren’t easy to get our minds around, and offers some inconvenient opinions. Such as — “Traditional journalism, in 2009 AD, is boring and kind of uninformative”