Jim Bowman's Company Man

ALLELUIA TIME for Jesuit novices 72 years ago. Christ is risen . . . Deo Gratias at breakfast, manual labor, correcting your neighbor, looking ahead .

On deceiving Jesuit leader Arrupe in his approving Fr. Drinan’s running for Congress in 1972

The other Oak Park paper, The Oak Leaves, ran an eloquent letter from a well known villager on l’affaire Buchanan . . .

. . . which some or many might have missed. 

Matt Baron found the trustee’s “sustained table-pounding, finger-pointing diatribe that occupied the better part of four minutes” “deeply dismaying,” he wrote.

“The irony and hypocrisy [were] thick.” The board was working on a statement affirming “its commitment to, um, a variety of viewpoints, among other lofty aspirations.”

Lofty indeed.

He offered a…

Wednesday Journal publications taking leap into nonprofit model

Publisher Dan Haley’s pitch for his new business model:

“Oak Park would not be the same place if the Wednesday Journal had not been here the past 40 years.”

Had never asked myself that question, an interesting one.

In any case, the issue is joined.

“To most people in our situation, I would say face the reality that our model is broken,” [Haley] said. “There was a process I went through of saying,…

Trustee Buchanan the most famous Oak Parker maybe ever!

And that’s why she got threatening emails.

I googled “buchanan oak park shut up” and NOT UNTIL the 11th Google page, ten sightings each page, did I find NO COVERAGE of Trustee Buchanan’s ordering three fellow trustees, including the mayor, to stay out of an important discussion — while apparently unbeknownst to her, SOMEONE WAS VIDEOING THE WHOLE THING.

But it’s all about the other trustee she…

Andre Vasquez for 40th Ward Alderman – A New Progressive Chicago Alderman

UNO “spending spree” revisited: An Illinois Blues moment