Rush Medical Center Docs Seek to Solve Alzheimer's Mystery
THINKING ABOUT THE BRAIN: Doctors and scientists at Rush University Medical Center are looking for better ways to identify and treat the disease.
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Meet Rahm Emanuel's Education Transition Team
Today Rahm Emanuel announced two of his transition teams, including his education team. Since the Chicago Public Schools, teacher contracts, charter schools, and school turnarounds will all be major issues for the new mayor, here’s a look at the people he’s appointed to help him.
Meet Neal Zucker (But You Probably Already Know Him)
THE SOCIAL NETWORKER: He lunches with Desirée Rogers—weekly—and has the Midas touch for fundraising among his gilded circle of friends. Take a lesson, Mark Zuckerberg: When it comes to making connections, the Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist Neal Zucker is the paradigm of gracious chic
Coming Soon: A New Generation of African-American Candidates?
Hermene Hartman, publisher and editor in chief of N’DIGO, angered some members of her African-American community when she endorsed Rahm Emanuel over Carol Moseley Braun. She told me recently that the black political/business/religious leaders who selected Moseley Braun had better move aside, or, at least, rethink their strategy. “We are not training people to run for office,” she laments. Her case in point: LeAlan Jones…
The 5 Ways Scott Walker Screwed Up
Republicans in New Jersey, Indiana, and Ohio are all fighting unions, but it’s the public-sector unions in Wisconsin that have captured the nation’s attention. Here’s what the governor did wrong… and one thing he’s been widely blamed for that’s not his fault.
Northwestern's Sex Toy Story, or, Why I Read Feminist Blogs
J. Michael Bailey stirred the hornet’s nest with a live sex demonstration after a session of his Human Sexuality class. The incident has been lousy with coverage, but reasoned discussion has been hard to find. Here’s where to go to find it.
Rahm to Meet with Farrakhan and Anti-Defamation League? No Way, Says ADL Rep
ABC7’s Chuck Goudie reported Wednesday the possibility of a coming together between the Jewish community and the Nation of Islam’s Minister Louis Farrakhan. “The Anti-Defamation League seems open to a meeting with Farrakhan and Chicago mayor-elect Emanuel,” Goudie said. The ADL’s regional director, Lonnie Nasatir, said that’s not so. Nasatir told me today…
Mayor Daley's Speaking Career Will Apparently Not Include Motivational Speaking
In a speech at Wheaton College, the lame-duck mayor (that feels really weird to say) blasts our country of whiners for its incivility.
What Does the For a Better Chicago PAC Want From Rahm Emanuel, Aldermen, and Us?
One of the big political players in the aldermanic races, and the runoffs to come, is a political action committee with virtually no public donors and only a handful of specific policy preferences. Is it progressive? Centrist? Conservative? Or do we even have the right framework to describe it?
Danny Davis on Rahm, Moseley Braun, and the 2012 Congressional Race
Two-time mayoral candidate and congressman Danny Davis, who criticized black Rahm voters during the campaign, took a more mellow look when he called me yesterday from his office in Washington. “Life is alright with me,” he said…