2012 Green Awards: Our Winners Speak Out
This year, we are honoring five entrepreneurs with big ideas on how to grow the sustainable economy. What’s the secret to their success? We gathered them together to find out
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Annexation, the Midwest, and the Rise of the Sun Belt
Why is the Midwest in financial and population decline while the Sun Belt thrives? Annexation, which pulled in vast swaths of suburb just as people were fleeing urban cores, has a lot to do with it.
The Mistpouffers of Clintonville, Wisconsin: A Brief History of Brontides, Icequakes, and Other Mysterious Booms
A hamlet 40 miles west of Green Bay has been shaken by a series of “booms,” scaring the townsfolk and drawing national attention. But strange, unexplained booms, shakes, and shocks are common throughout the world, and have been a mystery for centuries.
Week 24: A Moment to Forget
In 2000, I proposed to Sarah at a B & B in Lakeside, Michigan. Got down on one knee, took her hand, the whole thing. She proposed back, rings were exchanged, and then we were just kind of like: What do we do now?…
Illinois Primaries Postmortem: If You Care, Which Few Seemed To
Low turnout, a big victory for Rahm, a respectable victory for the local Democratic establishment, a substantial (if completely predictable) victory for Mitt Romney: an uneventful Illinois primary for the most important election since 1860.
The Political Consequences of Mark Kirk’s Stroke
KIRK AND CONSEQUENCES: Gauging the impact of a senator’s absence—now and after November
Illinois Primary: Some Takeaways from Voting Day
Illinois had its primary yesterday, and, in an embarrassment to the state and its politicians, not too many voters showed up—24 percent in the lowest turnout in 70 years in a presidential primary. But for people like me, it was feast of important races. Here, some thoughts as I followed the races well into the evening…
Photos: Karen Freeman-Wilson and Gary, Indiana
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Long Reads for Hump Day
Gary’s new mayor, Karen Freeman-Wilson; the curious case of Chicago hip-hop star/cult favorite Chief Keef; Alan Turing’s undersung legacy in the field of biology; and more.
Good Reads on the Illinois Primaries and Other Debacles
Mitt Romney’s dog problem; Obama’s Muslim problem; Republicans’ Illinois problem; Chicago’s voting problem; Derrick Smith’s FBI problem; and more from election day.