The Chicago Tribune mentions, then dismisses, some of Aaron Schock’s major gaffes. Then says:
Schock proposes some sensible solutions on health-care access, such as giving tax breaks to people who buy insurance on their own rather than through an employer. He has interesting ideas for tax incentives to reward work, saving, investment and entrepreneurial risk. He [...]

As discussed earlier, State Rep. Aaron Schock is saying he cannot attend Wednesday’s 18th District candidates’ debate on foreign policy issues. It seems that Gov. Rod Blagojevich has called a special session to find a way to bail out the Chicago’s mass transportation system.
Schock just couldn’t possible miss this session because whether or not Chicagoans [...]

The editors of the Chicago Tribune were apparently stunned by the response they received when they asked their readers if they believed that Governor Blagojevich should be recalled. I thought I might ask my readers what they thought. My opinion can be found in C.J.’s comment section.
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Eric Zorn tells us that only Republicans and Democrats should be the recipient of our votes tomorrow. To back up his position, he reminds us that the candidacies of Ross Perot and Ralph Nader helped secure victories for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush respectively. In other words: A victory righteous belongs to one Big [...]

The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times have stories about the name-the-museum fiasco.
Feh.
Thanks, museum geeks. You’ve just turned Peoria into a laughing stock. I hope you’re happy.
It’s time for the City of Peoria to intervene. The whole project depends on money from Peoria taxpayers. So that means the taxpayers have naming rights. The Peoria City [...]

When I’m not tossing together posts for my own blog, I’m commenting on other sites. I’ve been having a bunch of fun on Eric Zorn’s blog recently, specifically this post about the Daily Illini firing its editor.
Zorn is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. His insightful musings bring a ton of readers to the Trib’s [...]

My, My. That was a snarky little anti-blog editorial in the Chicago Tribune yesterday. Did Mike Bailey get a job at the Trib and no one tell me?
There’s a poll out that shows while the number of blogs continues to grow, the number of new blog readers isn’t. The Trib used it as an excuse [...]

The Journal Star calls its letter to the editor section its “forum.” What they do is look at the letters they are sent, select the ones they want to use, edit them for content and length, then toss the rest.
They ought to take a lesson from the Chicago Tribune. The Trib created a new blog [...]

As a independent journalist who blogs, I’ve althought though Big Media companies were foolish — to put it mildly — for fretting over staff members’s unedited blogs. Take for example this tongue-in-cheek, yet truthful paragraph from Eric Zorn’s blog:
“High Tribune Company muckity mucks who have been fretting quietly that some remark I toss off on [...]

The liberal this time is Eric Zorn:
But, again, the complete breakdown of order in New Orleans during the ongoing crisis again illustrates what so many are referring to as the “thin veneer of civilization” and makes at least this cautious person wonder — if I’m ever in a chaotic situation in which police protection [...]

The Chicago Tribune columnist looks at the government’s response to Katrina and came to an unsettling conclusion:

The Chicago Tribune is reporting on the contents of a non-classified memo that shows some problems facing the Illinois National Guard:
The memo raised concerns about a leadership climate in which it is often felt that officers are more concerned about their own advancement than the well-being of their troops. Soldiers in interviews said they have [...]

I’m no fan of former Gov. George Ryan, but the Chicago Tribune’s John Kass is a bit too cynical, even for my tastes:
He’s reaching out to the jury pool, looking for that one juror, most likely a black potential juror, to remember that Ryan put a moratorium on the death penalty and released the prisoners–most [...]

… now that he’s off the Chicago Tribune’s server, he can start running his own blogrolls, permalinks, comments, etc. As someone who probably would be on that blogroll, I highly encourage him to do it.
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Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass is considered by many to be the closest that newspaper has come to replacing legendary curmudgeon and political gadfly Mike Royko.
Kass isn’t worthy of rinsing out Royko’s bear glass. Sure, Kass has done some great work on the corrupt administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley. It resembles the work Royko [...]