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Sixth or 7th Tallest Building, Trump's Bragging?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:08:50 -0600

Flamboyant developer & deal maker Donald Trump claim's to have built the World's Sixth tallest building on the site of the former Chicago Sun Times.

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Petition Challenges Threaten Best Intent Pols

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:17:52 -0600

Those unacquainted with the fine points of the practice of election law may be perplexed by apparent minutiae contained in challenges brought against the political nominating petitions of dozens of ca

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Tribune Asks: Should Windy City Lease Water?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:12:40 -0600

As tempting as billions of dollars may be, the Chicago Tribune asks whether Windy Citizen should allow City Hall to lease Chicago's water purification & distribution system. What do you think?

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Health Care Educator: Debate Ignores Patient?

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:24:46 -0600

Chicago-based Emmi Solutions' founder Jordan Dolin asks whether patients have been ignored in the national debate over who pays for health care? Does the physicians always know best, Windy Citizens?

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Comcast Service: Hi-Performing or Metric Mgmt?

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:14:28 -0600

With call center management software logging the duration & disposition of every Comcast call center call, how's the agent supposed to take initiative to serve the customer?

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John Kass Is Taking The Day Off

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:30:09 -0600

I guess it's rude of me to point out, but this is a really pointless, inane column by Kass today, who seems to have not left his desk for this piece except to go to the washroom. Ted Williams' head? Are you kidding me??!!!

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Mt. Prospect Pirates Question CLEC Phone Security

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:15:12 -0600

One suburban Chicago businessman wrestled with more than $17,000 in calls made by telco pirates to Somalia, before his competitive local exchange carrier corrected his bill with a little help from the Chicago Tribune's Consumer Watch columnist John Yates. Did CLEC TDS provide adequate telco security, fellow Windy Citizens?

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What's Blocking Educational Reform? Charter v. CTU?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:05:31 -0600

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board rails about the Chicago Teachers Union blocking educational experimentation, but is there any merit to State Senator James T. Meeks comparing the CTU to Chicago street gangs? Urban family collapse v. charter school culling the best & brightest?

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It's been good year for charity bakery

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:47:54 -0600

I met Stan Sloan a year ago in a row of old warehouses near Division Street and the Chicago River, behind a little door marked "Sweet Miss Giving's."

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Tribune Company Ending Pretense Its Employees Own It

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:07:20 -0600

"How, for instance, can any 'owner' be fired without cause or due process? How is it that fired 'owners' lost all rights to future profits — such as they might be — upon termination...? Aren't the employees who remain actually in a more precarious financial position than those who left and already are receiving pension checks and have complete control of their retirement portfolios?"

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