What’s Next for Local News?
The other problem too is Web-based publishing. I can’t speak for Canada, but this remains a country where only [80 percent] of the population has Internet access at home—large swaths of the poor and/or rural community go without. Without those readers able to even passively participate, there is the question of how that exclusion will affect coverage and a news outlet’s primary mission of informing the public.
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Two Faces of 46th Ward Politics
Most residents value the diversity of Uptown; it is has given Uptown an identity dichotomous from its neighboring communities.
There is a huge need for affordable housing in Uptown as many people have been pushed out of the neighborhood already and that trend is continuing. I too am very critical of TIF and wish to see it reformed or completely gotten rid of. I appreciate your work, Ben, in that regard. The Fix Wilson Yard people, however, are not legitimate TIF reformers, they are primarily concerned about reducing the number of low-income people in their neighborhood.
