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by Josh Kalven
4:27pm
Wed Jul 23, 2008

Trice: Daley's Targeting Of Media Coverage "Shameful"

Yesterday's "Tuesday Commentary" on WTTW's Chicago Tonight went toTribune columnist Dawn Turner Trice, who voiced her hope that Chicago police will "step up" in the face of the city's rising violence without resorting to brutality. She also took aim at ...

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by Josh Kalven
2:03pm
Thu Jun 19, 2008

Joravsky: What The Museum Fight Was Really About

Here's The Reader's Ben Joravsky on the underlying reasons for Mayor Daley's insistence that the Chicago Children's Museum move to Grant Park:

Compared to the waste and destruction promised by the Olympics, the Children’s Museum is chump change. After all, the museum ...

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by Adam Doster
5:34pm
Tue Apr 1, 2008

Selective Outrage At City Hall

Chicago aldermen George Cardenas (12th Ward) and Tom Allen (38th Ward) are up in arms over an example of what they call wasteful government spending -- a problem city reformers have decried since the dawn of time. Problem is, these guys picked the wrong fight.

Last week...

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by Toni Preckwinkle
11:12am
Tue Apr 1, 2008

ALD. TONI PRECKWINKLE: To Regain Public Trust, City Must End Police Impunity

Serving as a Chicago police officer is a difficult and thankless task. While 95 percent of our police officers are hardworking and decent people who struggle to do their job well, a very small percentage engage in conduct that disgraces their department and fellow officers. ...

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by Adam Doster
12:23pm
Thu Mar 27, 2008

The Tribune's Poor Wal-Mart Math

In the summer of 2006, the Chicago Tribune editorial board staunchly opposed the Big Box living wage ordinance passed by the Chicago City Council and ultimately vetoed by the Daley Administration. Calling it "one of the loopiest ideas we've seen from City Hall in a ...

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by Josh Kalven
4:00pm
Thu Mar 20, 2008

Wal-Mart And Daley Feeling The "Heat"

In a column posted here yesterday, Amisha Patel recounted the 2006 effort to pass a City Council ordinance requiring Chicago's "big box" retailers to pay a living wage. The measure was ultimately vetoed by Mayor Daley, but as Patel notes, the widespread mobilization ...

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by Josh Kalven
4:41pm
Wed Mar 19, 2008

A Living Wage Is A Right -- Not A Luxury

Decent wages. Filling a prescription for your sick child. Not having to choose between paying the rent and buying groceries. Sound like luxuries to you? Well, they don’t to a majority of Chicagoans. Nonetheless, retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, and Lowe’s apparently ...