edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
Former WLS AM talk-show host Teri O'Brien is fulminating over at the Illinois Review about Barbara Walters' selection of First Lady Michelle Obama as her most fascinating person of the year.
What? Fidel Castro, a murderous dictator....wasn’t in the running?...I can totally see that, if by “fascinating” you mean [...]
Standee's Coffee Shop
Awestruck Norskies looked skyward. Was it a modern day star in the east welcoming our President Barack Obama to Oslo for his Nobel? Was the climate changing in a spectacular way--are we all DOOMED? Or was it...
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by Mark Rhoads
Like many conservatives I have often criticized editors of The New York Times for the reason that, while they are entitled to their liberal editorial policy, they too often seem to let that ideology dictate what they will or will not cover as a news story and therefore [...]
On August 11th we posted a link to a RedEye column by Tracy Swartz that reported an offer to the CTA for a complimentary cleanup and seal of the Wilson El Stop from Sungloss Marble Co. in the wake of winning the Crust Station [...]
There was a decent turnout last night at the CTA's Open House, to discuss the deplorable condition of Uptown's CTA stations. A reader sends in the following pics and notes that Ald. Shiller even showed up...40 minutes late. Any other readers attend the meeting? Add your [...]
Wow, the AV Club blog socks it to the Wilson Station in making it the top CTA Station The City Could Do Without. We urge everyone to come to the CTA Open House tomorrow night and make your feelings known about this embarrassment. We've' [...]
As we posted earlier, the CTA will be conducting Open Houses as a part of their "Vision Study." Tomorrow night's Open House will focus on a majority of the stations in Uptown.
The banking industry is so, so predictable. Whenever talk turns toward capping predatory interest rates on credit cards or other financial products, like clockwork, the group warns that consumers will have to kiss their access to credit goodbye. Last Tuesday, in a new hour-long documentary titled The Card Game, PBS' Frontline explored the' [...]
by Michael Muskal
The Senate began deliberations on its version of a healthcare overhaul today, with Democrats searching for a bill that will be supported by 60 senators.
Returning from the Thanksgiving holiday, the Senate slowly began the debate on President Barack Obama's centerpiece issue with the expectation that amendments [...]
by Mark Rhoads
The London Times reported on Nov. 29 that:
"SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based."
"It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to" [...]
Unless Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick gets bizarre marching orders from above, today’s 45-38 loss to Stanford will serve as Charlie Weiss’ swan song. In a game full of spectacular offensive drives, Notre Dame’s defense collapsed time and time again to finally surrender the lead to Stanford’s resilient Hiesman-hopeful, [...]
The backlog of payments to Medicaid providers is a serious problem in Illinois. When these notoriously low reimbursements to primary care physicians administering care to Medicaid patients don't arrive on time, it makes the doctors increasingly reluctant to treat that population. That diminishes health care access for some of the' [...]
The Regional Transportation Authority today gave its approval to Democrat Gov. Quinn's plan to borrow $166 million to avert a CTA fare increase and continue to allow wealthy seniors to ride free. The plan allows the RTA to issue bonds to provide the CTA with $83 million' [...]
From Ald. Smith's latest newsletter:
The CTA is conducting a "vision study" of the Red Line stations. In order to get input and feedback, the public is invited to a series of Open Houses. Each Open House will focus on a specific group of stations. Exhibits [...]
A reader sent in this photo: "CTA workers performed yet another patch job on the CTA Red Line this week. This time workers removed dangerously crumbling cement from the CTA overpass at Broadway and Leland." [...]
