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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 13, 2020
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The argument for self-interest
Vote yes on the Fair Tax to cut your taxes!
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 6, 2016
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Funding schools with property taxes hurts Chicago students
Case in point: Wealthy Winnetka spends at least $7,000 more per pupil.
- Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2016
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The Lisagors need rethinking
The Chicago Headline Club's local journalism awards are run by obsolete guidelines.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2016
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And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to the right picture
Spotlight deserved to win.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2015
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Propped-together dailies make a melancholy sight
"Our local papers make a melancholy sight leaning against each other for support." Media critic Mike Miner looks at the new Sun-Times/Daily Herald content-sharing agreement.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2015
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Slash today, bleed tomorrow—the Tribune cheers on Governor Rauner
The Tribune likes what it hears from Rauner.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2014
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Former Senate hopeful Jack Ryan is back in politics—as a publisher
A sex-free sex scandal pushed him out of the '04 Senate race against Obama, but Jack Ryan is back.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Nov 5, 2013
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What really happened in Paris, Illinois?
With a pardon at stake, two wrongful convictions in a double murder case get the reverse spin.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2013
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Rauner announces he's running for governor, doesn't mention Payton Prep charge
On a Republican hopeful, and the issue he hopes will go away.
- Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2013
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Mudslinging at the Rauner exploratory campaign for governor
"I scare politicians in both parties," Bruce Rauner says.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2012
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Bill Granger, RIP
Journalist and author Bill Granger dies
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Sep 8, 2011
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On pay walls and other potential signs of life
Reporters in Chicago are too busy getting their mojo back to be bummed about the biz
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 23, 2011
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Preckwinkle appoints Cox
Ted Cox named deputy communications director to Toni Preckwinkle
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2011
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Layoffs of People We Know
More layoffs include the Daily Herald's Ted Cox. Jim Bouton, "Ball Four"
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2009
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More layoffs at the Daily Herald
Debt from new printing plant forces more layoffs at the Daily Herald.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2009
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Oh the hyperbole!
Say what? Keith Olbermann pronounces Ted Cox the third worst person in the world.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2008
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They're lovin' it
The Chicago Film Critics Association has spoken.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2008
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Look for the silver lining
In publishing, the news that isn't unremittingly awful sounds pretty good. For example, these CEO memos from Paddock Publications and Macmillan.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2008
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Will Newspapers Survive?
Journalism will survive, but the working journalists at a Chicago forum doubted that newspapers as we know them will.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2008
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Daily Herald cuts back
Another retrenchment at the Daily Herald means the tandem columns of Chaya Gil and Ray Hanania will disappear.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 20, 2007
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The Daily Herald shares its pain
Bad news for the staff of the Daily Herald.