The Chicago Public Schools are broke. Teachers have been asked to share the pain. Coaches have been asked to work for free. Bigger class sizes have been threatened. So why are CEO Ron Huberman and other top bureaucrats taking raises?
In a showy nod to transparency, Mayor Daley called for applications to fill two midterm vacancies in the City Council. But the real selection process was as opaque as ever.
The judge who put Nathson Fields on death row was convicted of fixing the case in 1993, but it took Fields another 16 years to get acquitted. Now he's asking for reparations—to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.