Robin Ventura Talks White Sox
ACE VENTURA: In our Q&A, the surprise pick for manager discusses his “midlife crisis” and how it feels to be the most underestimated man in baseball
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Barack Obama, Next-Door Neighbor
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH: Omnipresent security aside, living next to the most powerful man on the planet has its advantages
Heat and Crime: It's Not Just You Feeling It
It’s accepted wisdom that crime gets worse in the spring and summer. But the relationship between crime and temperature is even closer than that, and the questions are many: does heat make you angry and stupid? Is there a point where it gets too hot to commit crime? And what happens after the heat wave?
Chicagoans on the White House State Dinner Guest List
Wednesday night’s dinner, carrying the theme, “America’s Backyards,” was in honor of “The Right Honorable David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, and his wife, Mrs. Samantha Cameron.”
Here are the Chicago names I recognized, along with, in some cases, a bit of annotation…
Good Reads on the Upcoming Chicago Elections
Only five contemplating days ’til the next local election. In the contentious Cook County Clerk’s race between Dorothy Brown and Rick Munoz, the crucial issue might just be information technology and access to data.
The Chicago Speed Camera Debate Accelerates
The Tribune calls into question City Hall’s data on red-light cameras and traffic fatalities, as the mayor gets a priestly cameo in the fight for extending the system to speed cameras.
Howard Dean on Ilya Sheyman, the Presidential Campaign, Iran, and More
He served as governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003. He ran for the Democratic nomination in 2004 and became infamous for the scream that ended his presidential hopes. He pushed a 50-state strategy as head of the DNC that helped Barack Obama win the presidency. And he morphed from traditional Democrat to full-fledged Progressive. So it’s not surprising that Howard Dean, 63, is drawn to Ilya Sheyman…
Great Lakes Ice Declines Precipitously
Great Lakes ice cover hit its lowest level in recorded history this year. Most of that can be attributed to the unusually warm winter, but over the past four decades the trend is towards substantially lower ice cover.
Daylight Saving Time: Way More Complicated Than Just Setting Your Clocks Back
Daylight Saving Time and time zones have caused controversy (and an identity crisis) in Indiana for decades. For a few years now, the state’s been on DST and off “Indiana time”—and it’s been good for business, if not for the environment.
Derrick Bell, Barack Obama, and Andrew Breitbart: Breaking Kayfabe
The latest figure to arise from the president’s past is a controversial Harvard Law prof, captured in grainy video by PBS and popularized by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart. Bell was indeed radical—but he spent most of his career in conflict with liberals. In lies a much more rich tale than a few minutes of pseudo-scoop tells.