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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Focus on Chicago's problems and not the clown car of candidates

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     Maybe we're going about this wrong.      Last week, as you know, Rahm Emanuel realized his mayoralty is upside down in a dit...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

White males up the ying yang

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     People occasionally ask me to do stuff. Speeches, panels, appearances. Monday I was invited to judge a Halloween dog costume contest....
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Monday, September 10, 2018

National Geographic's amazing journey with youngest face transplant recipient

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A surgical resident carefully cradles Katie Stubblefield's head to keep it still in the intensive care unit of the Cleveland Clinic ...
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Sunday, September 9, 2018

'Nobody's friend'—Rahm Emanuel's place in history

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Past mayors of Chicago on display in the outer office of the mayor, 5th floor, City Hall      Roswell B. Mason. Monroe Heath. Thomas H...
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Saturday, September 8, 2018

The Saturday Snapshot #5

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Photo by Tom Peters         Today's snapshot comes from Tom Peters—that's No. 2 for him, if you're keeping track. It...
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Friday, September 7, 2018

Flashback 1997: Outlook for immigrant takes a turn for the better

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       Readers of yesterday's flashback  wondered what happened to Riva Feldsher after the column ran. I had a vague memory of check...
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Thursday, September 6, 2018

Flashback 1997—Tired, poor and out of luck ; Welfare cuts hit immigrants hard

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     I was talking about a future story with an editor and this column came to mind—you know a subject has affected you when you remember th...
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