President Obama’s nomination of Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary was already problematic. Pritkzer is the epitome of the 1% – obscenely rich off of inherited wealth, hostile to workers, and someone who has advanced in politics by giving people money. She was a major campaign contributor and fundraiser for Obama which clearly …
Just yesterday, the City of Chicago declared that it will close 54 schools, giving a last-minute reprieve to four after community protests. It is the first wave of closings in Chicago; Mayor Rahm Emanuel has placed more than 120 in the crosshairs, claiming underutilization and budget issues.Chicago’s fight against school …
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We’ve all been affected by the tragedy in Boston. Anytime an innocent person gets killed in an act of terror, we feel some of the pain of the victims’ families, and we feel less safe, for our way of life has been threatened. In another incident, on a warm spring …
What is it about the word “terrorist” that—pardon the pun—terrorizes people who consider themselves politically left of center? They just hate to use the word. So, naturally, Leid Stories devotes today’s program to just that subject, hoping to expose what for many is a quandary: using the language and definitions …
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Austerity measures are eroding America’s public school system. With massive increases in school closures and class cancellations, advocates say educational opportunities for students of all ages are increasingly being diminished. This is not a new problem, per se. It is, however, an escalating one, and one that is being resisted. …
By popular vote, Leid Stories picks up from where it left off yesterday with our discussion on ways in which the media shape our attitudes, opinions, the decisions we make, and even what we know—or, more accurately, think we know. We return to media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, …
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In an all-out effort to score a win on gun control, President Obama and his handlers unleashed every weapon in his arsenal. When First Lady Michelle Obama went gunning for support in Chicago yesterday, breaking her own vow to steer clear of politics, it confirmed the Obama camp’s fear of …
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Never mind that the last approved budget was done by George Bush in 2007 for the 2008 fiscal year, President Barack Obama today delivered his way-overdue, embargoed budget with his odd way of touting the deep, Solomon-like wisdom with which he deals with all things: It’s fair because it’s not …
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Money power in private hands games the system. It does so destructively. Controlling money, credit and debt for private enrichment assures speculation, booms, busts, inflation, deflation, instability, crisis, recessions and depressions. The Cypriot crisis alone begs the question. Money power in public hands could have avoided what’s now happening. Ordinary …
It’s hard to tell, given the lackluster response from both the elected leadership and the electorate in Black and Latino communities across the country, but there’s a war going on against their children and it is having genocidal effect. The failing educational policies of the Obama administration, mere recasts of …
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Leid Stories conducts an on-air “people’s symposium” on fundamental questions and issues that are painfully evident in the current national crisis in education. All ideas and considered opinions are welcome in this exchange, which seeks to link public discourse on the subject with empowered advocacy and action. In Part 2, we …
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IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE! By the age of 50, most people expect that they’ll finally be kicking back a bit and enjoying the fruits of their labors, ideally, with someone they plan to grow old and grey with. …
Leid Stories conducts an on-air “people’s symposium” on fundamental questions and issues that are painfully evident in the current national crisis in education. All ideas and considered opinions are welcome in this exchange, which seeks to link public discourse on the subject with empowered advocacy and action. Related articles Leid …
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All across America, especially in major metropolitan areas, public schools in African American and Latino communities are being shut down at an alarming rate. City administrations are giving all kinds of explanations – budget issues, declines in enrollment, parental preferences for charter schools, etc. But overwhelmingly it’s because the targeted …
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On the same day that his home city, Chicago, announced the closing of 54 public schools allegedly to contain costs over the next 10 years, President Obama was in Israel assuring its war-fixated government of billions of dollars in military and economic support. Zero-sum thinking not only has become Obama’s …
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