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Sunday, April 24, 2011

School Tech Connect: A Humble Suggestion For The Chicago Media

School Tech Connect: A Humble Suggestion For The Chicago Media

A Humble Suggestion For The Chicago Media

One glimmer of hope on the horizon is that Rahm Emanuel has mistaken the local press for the somnambulant corporate embeds of the White House press corps, when they're anything but. The editorial page of the Tribune may be a criminal operation, but they still have some reporters over in the news division.

Perhaps a local reporter can be assigned some resources to look into what I'm predicting will be an obvious positive and pernicious correlation between the people on Rahm's Board of Education and their connections to investment groups that are gorging themselves at the win-win casino of the New Market Tax Credits program.

The NMTC program is a Clinton era law that hands out tax credits equal to 39% of (for example) a billionaire's