Just Keep Going At It
A precocious child who devoured three newspapers a day, when I was seventeen I decided that I should get involved with politics. Although I read the papers, I didn’t have...
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I Was Raised By A Black Woman
One of my mothers was a black woman and I miss her more than words can convey. I’ve tried countless times to write this essay, because I want to tell...
It’s Time For Illinois To Subsidize Local News Gathering
[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...
Chance Has Just One To Make Chicagoist Work
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,...
In Praise of Federal Bureaucrats
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...
Two Guys Go: Travel Videos To Latin America
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...
Do Facebook Birthday Posts Affect Popularity?
I have a confession to make: Three years ago I stopped wishing people happy birthday on Facebook. It’s a scam to encourage “engagement” and it feels like a cheapening of...
Who Are We, Any Way?
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...