Saturday, December 22, 2012

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:




Saturday coffee.

hrtln_5291_magnum

Katy Hogan and Mike James of the Heartland Cafe.

When I saw my old friend Mike James last Sunday it was after Representative Kelly Cassidy had appeared onLive from the Heartland, the radio show (WLUW 88.7 FM) that he and Katy Hogan do each Saturday morning at the venerable Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park.
Cassidy is a co-sponsor of HB6258, Democrat Elaine Nekritz’s bill that would cut teacher pension cost of living increases and eventually turn our defined benefit system into the equivalent of a 401K.
Mike is an old sixties radical guy and now an active progressive Democrat. He has a soft spot in his heart  for other local progressive Dems and who can blame him.
Me, I guess. When they go after old people’s promised pensions.
Me being one of those old people myself.
So I asked Mike for equal time. Which he graciously and