Posted on December 3, 2008
Protesters gather outside Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs playoff game.
A Chicago educational reform movement keeps fighting to address the suburban-urban funding disparity By Ben Strauss
CHICAGO — When the Chicago Cubs hosted Game 1 of their opening round playoff series on Oct. 1, more than 40,000 fans packed Wrigley Field. Outside the ballpark, another group was also trying to make history. Roughly 1,500 parents, students, teachers and activists protested for state educational reforms.
Crowded around the foot of a flatbed truck, the rally was the latest in an educational reform movement, led by Democratic State Sen. James L.… more
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Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in a major U.S. city, was a member of the San Francisco Board… more
HBO's 'True Blood' is fangtastic Welcome to Bon Temps, La., where all the women are innocent, all the men have secret obsessions and all the vampires -- save for a few -- try to recapture their lost humanity. A… more
A LGBT film festival gets shut down in St. Petersburg, 15 years after homosexuality became legal in post-Soviet Russia When Irina Sergeeva first ventured outside her native Russia, she was struck by the contrast between gay culture at home and in Western cities like New York.
There aren't a lot of places for… more
If you thought the present was bad, the Times today offers a truly grim picture of America's future. The toll to cross the bridge to the... more
The gurus at the National Bureau of Economic Research have finally acknowledged the obvious: the U.S. economy is in a recession, and has been since December... more
Will Obama have the guts and good sense to rein in this country's runaway military spending? In These Times Contributing Editor Frida Berrigan offers a great... more
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