It’s time to bid farewell to yet another national reporter covering Chicago and the Midwest, the latest in a long string of recent reductions to local bureaus.
Jan 27th, 2009
It’s time to bid farewell to yet another national reporter covering Chicago and the Midwest, the latest in a long string of recent reductions to local bureaus.
Nov 7th, 2008
Speaking of Hammond, Ind., here’s a great sound bite I stumbled upon while reporting a Miller-McCune story about cities paying for college tuition. The setup is simple: it’s April, and Tom McDermott, Jr., the young mayor of Hammond, is running for re-election. But Robert A. Markovich Jr., the 18-year old son of Councilman Bob Markovich, [...]
You’re the mayor of a small city that used to be a big city, the richest residents are flocking to the suburbs, and the industries that kept everyone employed have died. So what to do? Thomas McDermott, the Gavin Newsomesque mayor of Hammond, Ind., decided to use tax revenue from riverboat casinos to pay for [...]
Oct 8th, 2008
On Monday, I attended the first Globalization and the Midwest conference, organized by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. (I’ve been on deadline since then, so I didn’t get a chance to write about what I heard and saw.) This is a macro issue that affects basically everything I write about, since most of what [...]