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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the city's African-American voters...
Tags: Politics, Chicago Mayor, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Elections, Cook County Government
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Kassopedia: The cure for Verpes, Rahmifications and Karen Lewis Withdrawal Syndrome
As I light my pipe, take up my quill pen and sheepskin and once again prepare to write another volume of The Kassopedia — the repository of the world's great knowledge — I'm reminded of a snarky reader. She calls herself, "Your long...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Schools, Chicago Mayor, Lifestyle and Leisure, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Strike pits new Democrats against old friends
"If you can't make it here," many Chicagoans have told me over the years, "you can't make it anywhere." That's why educators, politicians and labor organizers across the nation are keeping a close eye on the city's teachers strike. For public workers'...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Finance, NPR, Scott Walker, Labor Legislation
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School-closings controversy needs some reality checks
Let's not pretend that when you close schools on the South and West sides, the children affected aren't black. Let's not pretend that's not racist. ... Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, speaking at a protest rally Wednesday As long as we'...
Tags: Schools, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, GQ, Civil Rights, Gucci Group NV
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Schoolchildren's stomachs rumble; drama queens grumble
As nominations poured in for the stupendous Moutza of the Month award for September, President Barack Obama was avoiding meeting with world leaders because he had something more important to do: hang out on daytime TV with the ladies of "The View." "I...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Mitt Romney, Entertainment, Chicago Mayor, Politics
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Rejecting test scores as a core value
It wasn't about money. It was about respect. That's what Chicago teachers union president Karen Lewis kept reminding the public during the seven-day teachers strike that had parents scrambling and kept 350,000 children out of class. But there was way...Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Health Insurance Cost, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Chicago Mayor
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It's the teachers in a squeaker
Which side won in the Chicago Teachers Union strike? I've heard and been asked the question many times since the union suspended its seven-day walkout and its members returned to the classroom Wednesday. The easy, vague answer is that both sides won. The...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Gordon Beckham, Kansas City Royals, Republican Party, Chicago Mayor
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What would Neva Boyd think?
In Chicago, last week was for the playing of games. Three of Chicago's best-trained game players — Aidy Bryant, Tim Robinson and Cecily Strong — landed lucrative, career-making gigs on "Saturday Night Live," a tantalizing reminder of the...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Movies, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment, ImprovOlympic
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Teachers' contentions
"Our members are not happy. They want to know if there is anything more they can get." So said Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Sunday evening after its House of Delegates refused to call off its strike against Chicago Public Schools...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Movies, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Entertainment
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Rahmpelstiltskin could come out any day now
If the striking Chicago teachers wanted to see the mayor as some angry Rahmpelstiltskin — stamping his feet in those in curly-toed boots, shrieking to be paid for spinning all that straw into gold — they'll have to wait a few more days. It'...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Teaching and Learning, Chicago City Hall, Chicago Mayor, The New York Times
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Chicago school strike hits third day
Talks were set to start again Wednesday morning with Chicago's school board and striking public school teachers seemingly miles apart from reaching a deal to get 350,000 children back in school. And as rhetoric and accusations came from both sides,...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Teaching and Learning, Time (magazine), Teachers, CNN (tv network)
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Open thread: The Weeks in Review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of......
May 10, 2013
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Sep 21, 2012
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Sep 12, 2012
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Mar 31, 2013
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Sep 28, 2012
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Sep 21, 2012
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Sep 23, 2012
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Sep 14, 2012
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Sep 18, 2012
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Sep 12, 2012
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Apr 26, 2013
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