Chicago Daily Observer

In the midst of its epic mismanagement of
Cook County government, the Todd Stroger
administration was caught in an embarrassing lie last
week when one of his political hires attempted to get
cute with a radio talk show host.

But Andre Garner’s feeble effort at deceit isn’t close
to being the biggest lie by the Stroger camp. The
biggest fallacy Stroger is trying to foist on the
public is that county commissioners Forrest Claypool
and Tony Peraica want to trim ten percent from the
2008 county budget.

What the two commissioners actually have proposed is a
modest two percent cut of the 2007 budget, and no
increase in the 2008 budget, which Stroger wants hiked
by eight percent. In other words, Stroger & Company
are complaining about “cuts” to a proposed budget not
yet approved by ... Read More...

The Tribune published a not very well thought out Op-Ed by Tracey Barnett, pumping “Republic 2.0”, a not very well thought out book by University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein.

Sunstein’s claim is that people filter information they want to read using technical tools on the internet, blocking out opposing opinion.

Of course this isn’t even close to a novel thought (or true for that matter, read a comments section sometime and tell me you can’t find differences of opinion), but the Trib did something to make it all the more interesting.

Note that the 4 comments disagreeing with the Op-Ed have been removed, and 2 new ones supporting the Op-Ed have been added.

I suppose one ... Read More...