Josh Locks is the coach of the boys sophmore baseball team and a teacher at Whitney Young High school. In the wake of Chicago Public Schools considering cutting all Sophmore sports for boys and girl across the city I caught up with Josh to get his take on the situation and ask what could be [...]
Wrote this post on December 28th, but didn’t have the gall to put it up. Then I saw my blog buddy Josh Hanagarne’s post on goals for 2009 and the success he has had with his list. So I decided, what the hell. Also, I am hoping the added pressure of putting this list in [...]
If you live in Illinois, today is the deadline to register to vote in the primaries.
If you live in Illinois and want to vote but don’t want to go to some horrible bureaucratic hellhole simply print of the form you can get here and send it in today.
Voting in primaries is especially important in states [...]
Last week I outlined some rough ideas for generating more money for the CTA, this week I take those ideas more in depth.
Coinstar and the CTA Card
Coinstar is a great partner to grocery stores. They have machines that take change and (for a small percentage) return paper bills. It’s a device with low upkeep costs [...]
Chicago needs the CTA. A big part of what is good about this city has to do with how much of the city is always within reach. Besides the grid and size of the streets there is nothing that has as much to do with that as the public transportation. The city’s economy depends heavily [...]
The World Cup is being drawn right now. There has been much fuss about rankings and groups, so I decided to make my own rankings. Admittedly, I am just a casual fan, and I know a good deal more about the top ten and those teams that play here in the Americas than the bottom [...]
Background:
The Movie: Eleven years ago, as a freshman in high school, I undertook a project that would become known as “The Kung Fu Movie.” This project was never finished, no part of it was particularly coherent and what little of the movie remains today is more a yearbook of a few misspent summers than a [...]
In the coming month North and Clark is going to feature original music from James Farrell, Tom Fort, and Emily Claire Palmer. These musician’s are all singer songwriters and they are going to be participating in a performance for you, the gentle readers of North and Clark on the 3rd of December. I am excited [...]
Last week H for Hombre (my band) got a chance to play the Elbo Room. It was a such a fun show to play I was smiling all weekend. I finally got my hands on a recording of the show and I am posting a couple of the songs today.
When I’m Gone
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Jeffery Colman represented four men at Guantanamo Bay. In this, the second part of a two part interview, Jeff talks about his clients, and being an American lawyer working with the detainees in Guantanamo.
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This is my second interview with a lawyer working at Guantanamo, the first was with Candace [...]
