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It’s Time For Illinois To Subsidize Local News Gathering

July 24, 2018

[caption id="attachment_131" align="aligncenter" width="550"] The Danville Commercial-News building in Danville, Illinois. Once a 30,000 circulation daily paper, it now claims about 15,000. Credit: Randy von Liski/Flickr[/caption] The business of reporting...

News Media

Chance Has Just One To Make Chicagoist Work

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018

This morning Chance Bennett, a.k.a., Chance The Rapper, announced his acquisition of Chicagoist from the shambling remains of Joe Ricketts’ DNAInfo-Gothamist company. It’s a great title with a significant audience,...

American Politics

In Praise of Federal Bureaucrats

July 19, 2018

When I was twenty-eight I owned four dark suits and one light. I kept an extra pair of white shirts in my office because Washington summers were muggy, and you...

YouTube

Two Guys Go: Travel Videos To Latin America

July 13, 2018July 15, 2018

Almost two months ago my friend Darian and I flew down to Mexico City to check out the city over Memorial Day weekend. Darian work in the travel business and...

American Politics

Who Are We, Any Way?

June 29, 2018June 30, 2018

If there’s anything Donald Trump’s presidency has provided America, it is an intense, national examination of the nature of class and voters’ political motivations. Trump’s election, and the transformation of...

American Politics

A Time For Moderates, But Not Moderation

June 22, 2018June 24, 2018

Where does this all end? At some point Donald J. Trump will no longer be president. Either the electorate, his health or some array of political forces will end the...

Noticed Items

Random things found for you on the Internets.

The Chicago River is still not…quite…clean. But there are folks pushing the envelope, like this guy who took a back dive off the Clark Street bridge and this guy who caught a bass downtown. And for some context, check out this silent, color film of a 1956 Chicago River boat tour.

Social media isn’t really my jam, and I really like surfing websites with vibrant editorial teams that want to make my neurons fire. So I’ve been really excited to discover the amazing photography of the NatGeo site, the accessible science writing of Knowable Magazine, and the deep planning thinking of the Urban Institute.

As a palate cleanser, check out this octogenarian video of Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin punching out a conspiracy theory nut.