Like it or not, you gotta love it. If you read the papers today you would see that the Supreme Court ruled 9 – 0 in favor of 6,000 black applicants for firefighter suing the City of Chicago. At least that’s the way it’s being reported. While to phrase it that way is not [...]
It’s a tale of two cities. Well, actually it’s just one city with two examples of what seems to be an unsolvable problem. In one case, parents of students at the now infamous Fenger High School are planning to boycott the school by keeping their children home to protest what they see as a lack [...]
There can be but one answer to Chicago’s unsuccessful attempt in being granted the 2016 Olympic Games. Racism! Oh sure, Mayor Daley is white and Chicago has a majority of white residents. But the fact that Chicago was represented by America’s historic first black President and black First Lady can only mean that the International [...]
Don’t go away, it’s time to play……….THE BLAME GAME!!!!! Charges are beginning to fly of police neglect in the brutal beating death of Chicago Fenger High School honor student Derrion Albert. Folks in the embattled neighborhood are once again looking for someone, anyone, to blame for the senseless, savage beating that snuffed out the promising [...]
Ahhhh, the good old days. I remember when the current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of the late “Da Mayor” Richard J. Daley, was just a young whippersnapper trying to earn fame and fortune in the insurance business. The press got wind that a very lucrative multimillion dollar insurance contract for the city of [...]
I foolishly thought equality was about leveling the playing field, not tipping it on end. In yet another blatantly political and typically Democratic move Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley is supporting a proposal to set aside a portion of city contracts and giving preferential treatment for those contracts to businesses owned by gays and lesbians. “The [...]
This is the true story… of a thoughtful self-biographer… picked to live in a house…as he works and has his life taped… to find out what happens… when people stop being polite… and start getting real… Welcome to this week’s episode of “The Real World – Pennsylvania Avenue/Chicago Style” I’ve never actually seen an episode [...]
