Why the USPS is nearing the brink, and what can be done to fix it. Right now it’s in an awkward position between subsidized public good and flexible private business, so the philosophy will have to change as much as the operation.
Seriously, this guy is busy. What made it into this week’s Chicago Guide was only the beginning. Read Coval’s full weekend agenda here.
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: The players on the city’s beep baseball team have the bruises to prove their toughness.
LOSS OF INNOCENCE: The star professor dedicated his 29-year career at Northwestern’s journalism school to overturning wrongful convictions and, in doing so, almost single-handedly prompted the end of the death penalty in Illinois. How did he and Medill come to such a bitter and rancorous end—in which no party escaped untarnished?
15 years after Bill Clinton pushed public-housing administrators to strictly enforce “one-strike” penalties, CHA residents can be evicted if anyone in the household commits a minor crime—or even if they’re charged, but not convicted, of one.
When Bill Daley took over Rahm Emanuel’s job as President Obama’s chief of staff, the conventional wisdom had it that, finally, an adult was in the room. It may be too soon to judge Daley’s performance in the job, but he certainly earns a low grade for the dustup over the scheduling of Obama’s upcoming jobs speech…
A ’20s tattoo artist, a developer and his son, the man behind Sybaris, a “mood director,” and a legendary Chicago courtroom figure: a Labor Day weekend reader.
Barack Obama’s veteran strategist returns home to Chicago, the city where he cut his teeth, to prepare for the 2012 election. To win the future, he’s looking to the past… perhaps because the future looks cloudy.
The top cop turns heads with a statement that CPD officers sometimes cannot respond to shots-fired 911 calls because they are “tied up on a lower-level priority.” But it’s an old problem that ties into the city’s somewhat inexplicable method of 911 response.
Dr. Jason Steffens, a postdoc at the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, develops an efficient method for boarding a plane, and finds that the block-boarding method has serious flaws.
