Who Says Bloggers Can’t Be Reporters?
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I’ll side with those at WBEZ who thought the station should’ve snatched up some of the dozens of first-rate journos dumped by the Trib and S-T over the past few years. Given the kind of resources, teamwork and time possible in a more conventional journalistic setting, ‘BEZ could indeed have emerged as the city’s leading news org. Of course, that isn’t necessarily saying much in this oddly lame and incurious news market, but it’s something.
Instead, we get more bloggers. Which I suppose is valuable, given the great global blog shortage we’re hobbling through right now.
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Whether one’s house costs $100 thousand or $1 million, the streets outside of it should be paved and maintained, and devoid of three-foot-deep sinkholes. Residents in every neighborhood of the city have a right to the same level of city services regardless of their income or the value of their property, or whether they’re homeowners or renters.
I commend you on your calm, persistent manner in the budget hearing in the face of Daley’s disdainful, rude behavior. I doubt many people would have kept their composure as you did. The level of class and intelligence possessed by you and Daley was on full display in that hearing. Keep at it and maybe the Daley administration will be forced to start caring about areas the tourists do not visit.
Our mayor may be too dull to comprehend this, but most people could do the math and figure it out.
