- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
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Looks like Governor Quinn will have to save us from Mayor Rahm—again!
Let's add Governor Quinn's name to the long list of people Mayor Rahm won't talk to.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Remembering Chicago's great school boycott of 1963
Kartemquin Films documents the city's last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Doing it wrong on guns, Chicago-style
With guns as in schools, mental health, and economic development—you can count on Chicago to do the wrong thing.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's Chicago—in black and white
The racial breakdown in the Tribune poll on Mayor Emanuel and the schools shows that how you view the mayor depends on how he's been treating your community.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 9, 2013
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If only the students at Lincoln Park High were on the school board
The students of Lincoln Park High are the role models that the Board of Education—and the City Council—should follow.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel plays rough and tough with Cardinal George
Rahm will mess with anyone who dares to oppose his policies against the poor.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2013
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Mayor Rahm says, "Pay your meters, Chicago"
Emanuel's a lot tougher on public school teachers than he is on the beneficiaries of the parking meter deal.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 30, 2013
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While waiting for information out of City Hall, please enjoy this video of the mayor
One Chicago public health official in charge of emergency preparedness didn't realize she wasn't available for an interview until a flack stepped in.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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Critical Mass takes a stand against Mayor Rahm's school closings
On Friday, the bike gathering Critical Mass leads the charge.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 24, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel: Hire me for the new TIF job!
The time has come for the world's foremost TIF expert to start working for the city.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 19, 2013
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It's time to take the Alderman Tom Tunney pledge, Chicago
The alderman takes the blows that might otherwise go against Mayor Emanuel for the Wrigley Field impasse.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 17, 2013
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How would Mayor Emanuel treat the Ricketts family if they were poor?
Let's say as poor and powerless as the people whose schools and mental health clinics he's closing
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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Nine schools in 12 years: One teacher's tale of life in Chicago's public schools
Hey, wannabe teachers: If you want to teach in Chicago, get ready to be moved to different schools all over town, many times!
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 10, 2013
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Springtime for poor people in Chicago
The "walk-the-walk" school-closing march—poor people never had it as good as they do in Mayor Emanuel's Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 3, 2013
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The Paul Douglas Alliance: Profiles in courage, City Council style
"Independent" aldermen issue a statement on school closings that might as well have been written by the mayor.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Welcome back from spring break, CPS teachers!
Chicago's public school teachers return from spring break to discover that a lot of things may soon disappear—like their jobs!
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 28, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's antipoverty program: Cruel to be kind
Mayor Emanuel came back from Utah with an interesting approach to ending poverty—give the poor more of it!
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 27, 2013
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Chicago's black voters wake up with a Mayor Rahm hangover
Black voters in Chicago are realizing that the policies of Mayor Emanuel are not quite what they voted for.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2013
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Hey Rahm: If Toni Preckwinkle unseats you, you'll have more time to go skiing
What a week for the mayor to go AWOL
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 20, 2013
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To those Lane Tech kids protesting the purging of Persepolis
It isn't even the worst of the Emanuel administration's sins.
