We are like exhausted firefighters … trying to appease the new assistant fire chief … who says, “Why not try aiming AWAY from the fire instead of at it?”
One must fear that the message that the MWRDGC commissioners will take away from this article is that they need not worry about the big stuff since the press cares only about whether commissioners receive a car or other debatable perks.
McCain has done favors—some pretty irregular favors—for lobbyists who have done favors for him. The “quid” and the “quo” of the quid pro quo are there, but nobody can prove the “pro.” So, he’s innocent until proven guilty.
Re “Calling It a Rant Won’t Make It Go Away,” Letters, June 12
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I applaud Mr. Joravsky for his thorough reporting and his meticulous facts. He is the crown jewel of the Chicago Reader.
N. Paulina
I’m sorry that my letter “lost” Guy Fawkes. TIF is, as I said, a complicated issue and I tried to write as clearly as I could. But if Guy was truly “lost” how does he know that what I wrote was “drivel?”
