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By Steve Rhodes
With great regret considering the topics on my agenda, I have to attend to other business today. I’ll still be on social media and this week’s podcasts are coming over the next couple of days, as well as a slew of posts once I get back on the horse.
Meanwhile, new on the site:
Posted on September 17, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“Motorola Solutions, a leading supplier of public safety communications devices, announced Tuesday it would follow the lead of other high-profile local companies and relocate its corporate headquarters – and 800 jobs – to Chicago,” the Tribune reports.
“With this move, Motorola Solutions not only returns to its Chicago roots, but the company is doubling down on Chicago’s future,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement.
Gee, that sounds familiar. Let’s take a look.
Posted on September 16, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“In a survey of 500 leaders of large corporations in seven countries, three-quarters reported the existence of change fatigue in their organizations, and 39 percent said it is highly prevalent – but perceptions varied depending on where respondents perched on the food chain,” the Tribune reports.
“The further away leaders are from the effects of change, the more blind they are to it and ill-prepared to mitigate the fallout, said Tyler Durham, partner and president of Ketchum Change, a unit of global communications firm Ketchum that specializes in change management consulting.”
This is about CPS, isn’t it?
Posted on September 15, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“The average NFL team is worth $1.97 billion, 38% more than last year,” Forbes reports.
“The gain was fueled by a $39 million increase in national revenue for each of the league’s 32 teams. The NFL is unlike any other sports league in that from an operating standpoint every team is immensely profitable. In 2014, operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) averaged $76 million for the league’s 32 teams, ranging from a high of $270 million (Cowboys) to a low of $25 million (Atlanta Falcons).”
And that doesn’t even count the free Wi-Fi Rahm gives the league whenever they bring the draft here.
Posted on September 14, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“Months after revealing the Chicago Police Department set up sobriety checkpoints almost exclusively in African-American and Latino communities, the Tribune has found that the pattern continues,” the paper reports.
“Between March and August, Chicago police scheduled 14 roadside checks, pulling over drivers randomly to check for drunken driving and other violations. Nine of the checks were in majority black police districts. Four checkpoints occurred in a predominantly Latino districts. There was one in a majority white area. That’s despite the fact that the Tribune has in the past shown some predominantly white districts in Chicago had more alcohol-related crashes than many minority districts.”
Posted on September 10, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“Chicago-based United Continental Holdings, parent of United Airlines, on Tuesday replaced its CEO and two other top executives, saying the departures are linked to internal and federal probes associated with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,” the Tribune reports.
Whatever’s going on must be quite serious, because United is in a run of record profits, though its competitors are going gangbusters too – expanding fees and contracting leg room is doing wonders for the industry.
Posted on September 9, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“More than 350,000 Chicago Public Schools students prepared to return to class Tuesday for the start of a new school year that already is riddled with fiscal instability,” the Sun-Times reports.
And at Kelvyn Park High School, which is slated to lose an additional $2.2 million from its budget, students and teachers wondered how they’re supposed to succeed with ever-shrinking resources.
“We have no college counselor,” Sherilyn Flores, a 17-year-old senior, said outside the Hermosa neighborhood high school. “I’m more worried about college this year than any other senior would be.”
The cuts have been going on since her freshman year in 2012, she said, adding: “High school doesn’t feel like high school anymore.”
Posted on September 8, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
3:36 P.M. Sunday UPDATE: The Beachwood Radio Hour #67: The Hamburglars vs. Rahm Emanuel. This is what it’s all about, people. Plus: I Worked In Florida; Dyett And The Problem With Process; The Only Sin Is Not Being Yourself.
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1. The Architecture Of Segregation.
“Fifty years after the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development – and nearly that long after the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 – the fight against the interlinked scourges of housing discrimination and racial segregation in America is far from finished. Economic isolation is actually growing worse across the country, as more and more minority families find themselves trapped in high-poverty neighborhoods without decent housing, schools or jobs, and with few avenues of escape.
“This did not happen by accident.”
See also:
* HUD Refuses To Prosecute Widespread Discrimination It Spends Millions To Find.
* Living Apart: How The Government Betrayed A Landmark Civil Rights Law.
Posted on September 6, 2015
