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March 2017

March 04, 2017
That's what Bill Daley suggests in an opinion piece in the Tribune last Thursday. First,...
March 03, 2017
Here's the reality:  my son is a junior in high school.  He's got good grades,...
March 03, 2017
So at his quasi-State of the Union, President Trump (I know, it's strange to be...
March 02, 2017
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched...
March 02, 2017
This is a little bit of an invitation for readers, as I've been thinking about...
March 01, 2017
Just a small ah-ha moment here during lunch break. How often have you heard the...
March 01, 2017
It did not take long for the AP to put out its fact-check of Trump's...

February 2017

February 28, 2017
Yeah, let's play this game: what will Trump say tonight? In fact, let's do this...
February 28, 2017
Every day, it seems like, there's a new report of a bomb threat made to...
February 27, 2017
In the news over the weekend:  Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old junior, biologically a girl but...
February 27, 2017
After the vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in an inner-ring St. Louis suburb last weekend,...
February 24, 2017
So I've spent some time reading about Adam Purinton, accused of killing one man, and shooting...
February 23, 2017
Well, to begin with, it's not Ferguson. But I spent some time trying to hunt...
February 22, 2017
In the news this week:  a Jewish cemetery in Missouri was vandalized, with about 200...
February 22, 2017
You all know about the bomb threats called in to various Jewish Community Centers, right?...
February 22, 2017
This is a genre of posts that's reappearing again (e.g., Rebecca Hamilton at Public Catholic and...
February 21, 2017
That's what Heidi Stevens, in a column in Sunday's Tribune, imagines. Soon enough, Jackson Park...
February 21, 2017
That is, could Mexican-born American high school graduates return to Mexico for their university education?...
February 19, 2017
I'm starting to think that I'll write one Trump post per week (and this counts...
February 18, 2017
About 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust.  This figure is sometimes cited as "between...
February 17, 2017
Well, what you probably won't know, unless you're a diligent reader of Fortune or spent...
February 17, 2017
That's the issue with the "one-state solution," isn't it?  The Arabs, predominantly Muslim, wouldn't necessarily...
February 16, 2017
Earlier this week, the newspaper was full of articles like this one:  "Trump rhetoric has...
February 15, 2017
In today's Tribune (originally from the Washington Post):  "Fifth-grade Catholic youth team forfeits season rather...
February 15, 2017
The Chicago Public Schools, and its CEO Forrest Claypool, in a long-running battle to get...
February 14, 2017
This is a movie, not a book.  Here's the premise:  a Russian filmmaker, Vitaly Mansky,...
February 13, 2017
Or, by tight medical-school admissions, high tuition rates, and the long hours of residency, have...
February 12, 2017
So the big fuss about the Budweiser commercial showing Adolphus Busch coming to St. Louis,...
February 10, 2017
Yeah.  I don't know all that much but Deutsche Welle had an article about a...
February 10, 2017
Rep. Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget,...
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