Friday, November 29, 2019

Passage of $15 minimum wage is a big victory for Chicago workers

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“This vote is easy for me,” Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza, 10th, said, because it closed the gap without layoffs, increased the minimum wage...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

14 years after Katrina, half of the schools in New Orleans all-charter district are considered "failing".

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"Hurricane Katrina gave a great American city a rebirth." -- Kristen McQueary, Chicago Tribune On August 29, 2005, Hurricane...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

More Biden debate blunders

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Yes, I'm keeping track... Biden last night : I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period. And I think everyone -- anyone who h...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

I've got problems with the impeachment strategy

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Republicans aren't disputing the facts. They're telling Democrats where to shove them. I know it's early in the game, but s...
Monday, November 18, 2019

QUOTABLES

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COUNTING VOTES -- 81% of the teachers who voted backed the contract. CTU Prez Jesse Sharkey ...called the contract, "a powerful a...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Better to teach journalistic ethics by example

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Why were faces blurred in this Facebook photo used in the Sun-Times story? A routine news story became a viral controversy Sunday night...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Quotables

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Bolivians take to the streets in support of overthrown President Evo Morales after the U.S.-backed military coup. The placard reads: ‘Evo ...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Billionaire Bloomberg says he's running. But why?

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The prototype for the Rahm Emanuel mayoralty was Michael Bloomberg's New York. -- Crain's The oddsmakers in Vegas put the odds o...
Monday, November 4, 2019

QUOTABLES

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Sean Doolittle won't go to the White House "My wife and I stand for inclusion and acceptance, and we’ve done work with refuge...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Sun-Times blows it again on teacher planning time

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Sun-Times editorial asks: "But since when do salaried professionals watch the clock like hourly workers on an assembly line?" An...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Day 9 of Chicago teachers strike. Sun-Times gives a full page to the charter hustlers

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In the wake of horrific Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Univ. of Chicago economist Milton Friedman  called the event "an opportunity to ra...
Monday, October 28, 2019

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

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A blue sign, reading “Veterans for Impeachment,” grabbed national audience views at the World Series last night, when the cameras trained ...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Sun-Times' phony support for CPS sports teams

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Sun-Times says, Simeon needs the teachers strike to end sooner than the rest of the Public League  We have to wonder, if the strike con...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

On the way to the picket line...

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William Estrada, CTU member, Visual Arts teacher, Telpochcalli Elementary School. (Alan Maass) It's a cold and blustery morning in C...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Big corps not "fleeing" IL over $15/hr minimum wage after all.

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Crain's begs Amazon: "Come to Chicago. We have plenty of low-paid workers here." Last year we defeated the Rahm/Rahner pl...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

There were three teacher strikes when Harold Washington was mayor

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The 19-day CTU strike in 1987 was longest in city history In 1983, Harold Washington made history in two ways. He became Chicago's ...
Monday, October 7, 2019

QUOTABLES

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"I will destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey" -- Stable Genius I'm seriously trying to avoid quotes from the Stab...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

Looking for something better to come from vitriolic contract talks

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Striking CTU members gather over two days to study the 2012 contract offer before voting to end the strike.  The contract talks between ...