Clarence Page
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Editorial: Chicago considers charging suburbanites more to park. How neighborly. (opens the original)
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A new parking meter deal is done and dusted, as City Council on Tuesday approved a $2.53 billion agreement allowing Stonepeak Partners to take over the remaining 57 years of Chicago’s parking meter lease. Good. We were tired of writing about this historic disaster. But that doesn’t mean there cannot be another one just ahead. Now, aldermen are looking to the future. And as some gaze into their crystal ball, they see a brave new world in which suburbanites pay more to park. An idea is floating ar
Editorial: Mayor Brandon Johnson should join with aldermen in their insistence on fiscal restraint (opens the original)
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Listening to Brandon Johnson Tuesday after a City Council majority voted to require three-fifths of the body to approve future bond authorizations, it sounded like the mayor intended to veto the measure. If the mayor allowed this prudent and commonplace policy to enter into law, it would signal to bond investors and credit analysts, who are taking an increasingly dim view of the city of Chicago as a safe investment, that policymakers here across the ideological spectrum understand the language o
Editorial: Where have all the good Republican candidates gone? (opens the original)
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A wise man once told us “I’m a Democrat at the local level, a Republican at the state level, and a libertarian when it comes to federal politics.” It’s a philosophy that holds, essentially, that you should be more skeptical of government power the farther away that government is from the people it governs. It expresses a comfort with an activist government close to home, a healthy dose of bi-partisan restraint in Springfield and lots of self-control in Washington, D.C. For those readers question
Clarence Page: Why parents sometimes need to go to school, too (opens the original)
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Everybody, according to an old saying of unknown but apparently wise origin, is an expert at raising other people’s kids. One child of recent national interest is the daughter of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist who led “The 1619 Project,” a controversial and Pulitzer Prize-winning reexamination of American history through the lens of slavery, instead of treating that American horror story as a sidelight. In a conversation that occurs in middle-class Black households nationwide, including min
Clarence Page: Nikole Hannah-Jones demonstrates why parents sometimes need to go to school, too (opens the original)
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Everybody, according to an old saying of unknown but apparently wise origin, is an expert at raising other people’s kids. One child of recent national interest is the daughter of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist who led “The 1619 Project,” a controversial and Pulitzer Prize-winning reexamination of American history through the lens of slavery, instead of treating that American horror story as a sidelight. In a conversation that occurs in middle-class Black households nationwide, including min
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