Tag Archive for ‘austerity’
A View From Washington: Our First CEO President
If you’ve been thinking that Obama is a Democratic President fighting for a historic compromise called the Grand Bargain for whatever reason, you do not understand what is actually happening, argues Don Washington.
Paying More for Less: What’s Behind the CTA Cuts and Fare Hikes?
We Chicagoans find ourselves in an absurd situation. The demand for public transportation services is soaring. The resources exist to vastly expand services – and repair aging infrastructure – in order to fully meet that demand.
A View from Washington: The President’s Quest for the Unholy Grail
You are probably tired, angry or resigned to the evil that plutocrats do when you think about the Fiscal Cliff, the Grand Betrayal or, as I like to call it, the Unholy Grail.
Education Apartheid: The Racism Behind Chicago’s School “Reform”
Dyett High School students are not allowed to enter the front door of their school. Instead, the more than 170 students at the Southside high school enter through the back.
Let’s Stay Away from Kristof’s Anti-Prostitute Agenda
There is sometimes a debate, internally and externally, regarding what causes can be accommodated within the Occupy movement. In general, I’m of the position that corporate power and structural inequality taints every area of ours lives, and that a holistic intersectionality (for want of a layman’s term) is a good and necessary response to it. ...
