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Friday, August 2, 2013

8-2-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:








Grassroots activists marched a letter up to Lisa Madigan’s office demanding that she investigate the TIF surplus. Media is absent.
Tim Furman reports that the media was absent to day.  ”t was just me and Progress Illinois and some guy from Univision who clearly didn’t know how to operate his camera. So… nobody will see this stuff unless we (meaning you) put it out there.” Please post these videos widely. These folks have something important to say. Tom Tresser, TIF Illumination Project. Karen Zaccor, Northside Action For Ju


The Dodger’s Yasiel Puig may have homered to beat the Cubs yesterday, but the Cubs still won and the kids still lose.
  The Dodgers beat the Cubs yesterday off a bunch of homers, including one by the electrifying Cuban, Yasiel Puig. The Cubs still won big time. With a big tax break from the City. Like their north side neighbor, DePaul University, the Cubs have a friend in City Hall. DePaul is getting a 100 million dollar taxpayer subsidy for a south side basketball arena, announced by the Mayor the week he annou
  
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: From the writers. Diane Ravitch on Karen Lewis.By Diane Ravitch. I never heard of Karen Lewis until she was elected president of the Chicago Teachers Union as an upstart in September 2010, overturning the established leadership. I was intrigued and decided that I wanted to meet this woman. As it happe