Why is the Grant Park Advisory Council so eager to let the Chicago Children’s Museum move in?
Bob O’Neill, president of the Grant Park Advisory Council, jokes that his usual response to citizens concerned about new construction in the park is this: “Well, they’re actually out there building it right now, but thanks for the public input.”
It’s funny, as Homer Simpson would say, because it’s true.
Read More...I launch my new weekly column here with a series of commentaries and analyses of all the presidential candidates, beginning with Dem frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Frontrunner she may be, but Clinton is the Democrat I fear most as president—though if she wins the nomination I will once again hold my nose and pull the lever for another lesser-of-two-evils candidate of the party I usually support (but not every time for every office).
Why not Hillary?
Well, I find this smart, once liberal, sincere and honest woman too willing to compromise essential principles, journeying beyond pragmatism to total sellout. Voting for the Iraq war is only a recent example—20 brave Senate Democrats voted ‘no’—and her refusal to apologize elevates the stench to a higher level.
Go back to 1993, when she led the drive for national health care right down the drain—killing it politically for more than a decade. After ... Read More...
We at The Chicago Daily Observer are pleased to announce that Don Rose will be one of our regular columnists—and with this offering begins a series on all the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican. Don and I have been political sparring partners and have never agreed on a single political thing—but as a veteran liberal who started as press secretary to the Chicago campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. As an analyst and strategist, his views are exceedingly valuable…at least to this Editor. As an independent political consultant he has advised Mayors Jane Byrne (during her upset of Michael Bilandic) and Harold Washington, U. S. Sen. Paul Simon, Supreme Court Justice Seymour Simon, Gov. Jim Edgar, former Cook county states attorney Bernard Carey and a good number of public officials including U. S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun during her early career as state representative. He has been an on-air ... Read More...
Seeing the good, but hardly record-breaking crowds at the former Western Open in Lemont watch Tiger Woods impressively capture his mind-boggling 60th professional golf title this weekend, the PGA feels confirmed in its decision to shaft one of the nation’s best golf cities—Chicago.
The Professional Golf Association has not just snuffed the Western Open name—a Chicago institution and professional golf’s oldest tournament—but has decided to move it out of Chicago—one of the nation’s most enthusiastic golf venues—leaving us without a single PGA event.
According to the PGA, we’re supposed to feel good about that.
For those who don’t share my passion for golf, here’s a way to better understand the PGA’s insult: If you’re a big fan of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, think about insult when the legendary Sir Georg Solti commemorated his last concert as music director of the CSO in New York’s Carnegie ... Read More...
