Episodes

  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-9-25: Politics have no place in schools

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-9-25: Politics have no place in schools
    Jan 9 2025
    Well, finally, finally, we now have only a few days to wait for the first meeting of Chicago’s first-ever publicly elected Board of Education. Our brand new 21-member Board of Ed is about to begin its difficult process of trying to make our public schools better than they are. I’m dubious about it because the […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-19-24: Start over, my dear Bears, and think smart

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-19-24: Start over, my dear Bears, and think smart
    Dec 19 2024
    Considering my very sad but nonetheless much-loved Chicago Bears, I’m wondering right now what I’ll do this coming Sunday, knowing very well what I’ll do is what I do every Sunday this time of year: Make myself a chicken salad sandwich, say a prayer to the gods of football, sit down in front of the […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-12-24: Here Rahm goes again

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-12-24: Here Rahm goes again
    Dec 12 2024
    Here we go again. Or here Rahm goes again. That’s Rahm Emanuel declaring that he may run again for Mayor of Chicago. Or, if Governor Pritzker of Illinois decides not to run again, Rahm Emanuel is saying, Rahm may run for governor. At this particular time in government and politics, Rahm Emanuel is the US […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 11-21-24: CPS CEO Pedro Martinez has been doing a very good job

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 11-21-24: CPS CEO Pedro Martinez has been doing a very good job
    Nov 21 2024
    It is hard sometimes to keep up with the ups and downs in the government and politics of Chicago’s rookie mayor Brandon Johnson who is trying very hard to quiet and remove from office Pedro Martinez, CEO of our public schools who was hired three years ago by Mayor Lightfoot and since then has been […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 11-14-24: The media helped Donald Trump get reelected

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 11-14-24: The media helped Donald Trump get reelected
    Nov 14 2024
    My computer this morning, along with everything else I’m reading, is loaded with news about Donald Trump creating a new White House administration. What I’m not reading, because it’s not being reported anymore, is news about how the newspapers and those talking heads on television helped Donald Trump get reelected. For the end of his […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 11-7-24: So many things are so bad with the Bears

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 11-7-24: So many things are so bad with the Bears
    Nov 7 2024
    Maybe it’s good news, that vote for President. Maybe it’s bad. Depending on whom you voted for, you’re happy or sad. But finally, at long last, we all now know who will be the next occupant of the White House. But we don’t know, and what I am worried about, is who will win the […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 10-31-24: Here I go again, booing Halloween

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 10-31-24: Here I go again, booing Halloween
    Oct 31 2024
    I walked around my neighborhood early this morning before catching the bus that brings me here and I’m still thinking about the Halloween things I saw. Chunky things they seemed to me. Ugly, fake skeletons, coffins, and graveyards dug into charming little gardens alongside the sidewalks in front of some beautiful apartment buildings and private […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 10-24-24: Too much bias in newspaper coverage of Mike Madigan trial

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 10-24-24: Too much bias in newspaper coverage of Mike Madigan trial
    Oct 24 2024
    It’s three days now into the Mike Madigan trial and the headlines are in big print on the front pages of Chicago’s biggest newspapers. In the Tribune, for instance, “The Michael Madigan Trial” alongside a big picture of Madigan, his briefcase and his lawyers leaving the courthouse, what they’re calling racketeering case underway. Competing with […]
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