Public School closings in Chicago have divided the community. The Chicago Teacher Union, represented by President Karen Lewis, says the cuts just hurt the African American…
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The 2011 Wisconsin protests should still be vivid in your memory – they certainly are in mine. In February of that year, tens of thousands of…
Roughly 33% of Chicago Aldermen since 1972 are convicted criminals. But that’s nothing. Since 1983, 100% of the aldermen from the 7th Ward are convicted criminals…
An alleged cover-up of a another botched murder attempt by a longtime violent Outfit associate named John Rainone happens to be a current affair within the…
The Outfit has been a dominant force in Chicago for nearly 100-years, and, despite a scorched earth campaign waged against them by the federal government over…
Today’s topic: Political chicanery with a Christmas twist! Dreaming Of A Working Government by Theodore Roe Three years ago I wrote a little ditty about how…
Jesse Jackson Jr., absentee congressman that won his spot in the U.S. House of Representatives back without even campaigning for it, has resigned his seat, thus…
As if we needed another reason to turn the president out of office, Bloomberg News recently released an internal analysis of the Obama administration’s criminally (both…
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Tuesday again vetoed gambling expansion legislation. It’s not that Quinn opposed gambling expansion, it’s that he didn’t like the law the legislature passed. He cited gaps in the oversight aspect of the bill. It is relevant to note that this defeat of gambling expansion is…
This week’s Twit and Twit runners-up all ask the same question: where is (and isn’t) the beef? The meat of their arguments might be red or…