Clarence Ewing

I think you might want the first line to read "anyone OVER the age of 50..."...

I can't help but suspect that there are about 10 different things no one at City Hall or the Blue Ribbon committee is thinking about that's going to end up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of do...

Yet another alderman jumps ship. Now that times are tough fewer of the lifers want to stick around to solve actual problems. It's going to be very interesting to see what Daley decides to do....

I've also experienced this situation at live shows. The way I see it, though, is that there are some styles of music that are just not a good fit for weekend nights at a crowded bar full of drunk peop...

"Not that it's so simple as to just shift the money around and plug the hole even if such a thing were possible." Actually, it is. I just takes a government that wants to serve the citizens and not t...

I like to go to the Hopleaf right when it opens around 3:00 PM on Saturday or Sunday. For a few hours before the place gets packed, it's a wonderful spot to have a conversation or set a spell. Seems ...

You might want to take a look at the kinds of world-class academic programs places like Nebraska and Kansas have before you start waving your ignorance around in public....

I'm also from Nebraska, but I feel the opposite. A football conference with Nebraska, Iowa, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan and Purdue is going to be hugely entertaining. It will be much more of a fi...

"There are no other viable candidates on the horizon?" How do you figure that? How about we wait until the election before handing Daley another term? Maybe the precious Guardians of Democracy in the...

I have it on good authority that they will be enforcing the $45 payment rules this year. No sneaking onto the drive up on the north side this time!...

The solution to the immigration "problem" in the U.S. is simple. Mandatory prison time for any business owner (or C.E.O.) caught using illegal workers in their shop. It would be just as if you were c...

$18 for a museum trip is in line with what it costs in other cities. And whoever it was that did the tagging is a criminal. If the police find out who did it, that person should be required to reimbu...

I love Pitchfork like a family puppy, but there's some marketing hype going on here. The 3-day passes are gone while single day tix for all three days are still available. So the organizers get to pu...

The CTA management and the CTA union executives should all be fired. Of course, there's no one to fire them because they run a legal monopoly. Sp they'll keep screwing the line workers and the custome...

I've heard and read in various discussions about the Bears' mid-80s teams that the reason the "46" was created and installed in the first place was because the defense, as a group, wasn't good enough ...