Mike Klonsky's Blog

Truth be told, I didn't watch Trump's shit show last night. Watched the Pistons demolish the Cavs instead. Much more satisfying. ...

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll Senior Editor at the Stigler Center and its publication ProMarket, and one of six members of the ProMark...

Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker in Harlem I didn't know the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker personally, but I knew of him and admired his work, ...

It's time to reconsider the word, "underutilized" as CPS code language for schools in black communities, in the same way ...

Women's March, New York Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The women’s marches were the beginning, not the end. What happens next will be...

  "Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?" he said. "I don't know anything about wh...

"I am not a racist."  ( Painting by Haitian-American artist, Watson Mere ) “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutual...

I thoroughly enjoyed today's show for two reasons. The first was watching my brother Fred's first day at the controls as produc...

Kennedy and Rahm at Wolf Point : "We like investing here," Kennedy said. "Every time we attract a new resident to our Downt...

Troy LaRaviere on Hitting Left I'm not endorsing anyone for mayor yet. 2019 is still a ways away and we have no idea what the whole ...

Passerby Gretchen Moore shot video of raid on Chicago homeless “And so I parked my car and I went running over and I said, ‘Who are you ...

Gift cards for reward and punishment What happens when you make the public school system a wing of Chicago City Hall, arguably the great...

Yes, Doug Jones , is a self-described centrist Democrat who still talks the talk about some illusionary bi-partisanship with Trumpists ra...

R.I.P. Erica Garner Erica Garner  "I'm in This Fight Forever" -- The Root Lenny Steinhorn, historian at American Unive...

End-of-year tabulations are in from Chicago Public Schools. CPS reports that in 2017, 120% of entering freshmen graduated on time with ev...

Escaping the Chicago winter for a few days in the Florida sun. I haven't had the time to do much blogging. Been too busy getting sand...

The artist Jacob Lawrence depicted the Great Migration in 1941. “It’s a menu of disinvestment,” says Elizabeth Todd-Breland, who teac...

Rahm flew Randi out to build union support for the Trust "We've debated this long enough. I'm not in the position of analy...

Best headline:  Alabama Voters to Roy Moore: F*ck You and the Horse You Rode in On The real horse that he rode in on, of course, was the...

CTU V.P. Jesse Sharkey on Claypool “His own arrogance did him in...Because, in his mind, there was no such thing as unethical as long ...