Anonymous's blog My colleague, Juliana Kerr Viohl, has called my attention to an article from the Las Vegas Sun entitled “ The Next Chapter: Las Vegas Becomes a Global City.” Actually, the words “global city” are a headline writer’s hype: the article ...
Anonymous's blog The Sunday New York Times these days seems to be edited by the descendants of Saul Steinberg, the New Yorker cartoonist who drew the famous Gotham-centric map of the United States. Steinberg’s map showed nothing much between the Huds ...
Anonymous's blog On this fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s unforgettable speech during the March on Washington, my thoughts turn to Frank Lumpkin. Frank Lumpkin was 93 when he died three years ago. A black man, barely educated, born in ...
Anonymous's blog The news about growing inequality and middle-class decline – in the Midwest, in the country, even abroad – keeps flowing in. As promised, we’ll keep an eye on this news and, from time to time, will pass on the more interesting and in ...
Anonymous's blog The Great Lakes are literally the future of the upper Midwest. This is a region built on natural resources, on its fertile land and rich lodes of iron and coal. As the economic benefits of those resources dwindle, our future now reli ...
Anonymous's blog Notes from the inequality beat: President Obama was in Galesburg, Illinois, to urge more spending on education and infrastructure to combat the “inequality of opportunity” that besets America and, especially, its shrinking middle cla ...
Anonymous's blog Let’s talk about Detroit. But first, let’s talk about Potosi. You’ve probably never heard of Potosi. In its heyday, it was the biggest city in the western hemisphere. That heyday was 400 years ago, when Potosi – a silver mining city ...
Anonymous's blog Catching up with the news after a vacation: The Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, giving new energy to the drive for same-sex marriage and guaranteeing that more states will legalize these marriages. This ...
Anonymous's blog-0-0-0- No new postings for the next couple of weeks. The Midwesterner is taking a summer vacation-- in the Midwest, naturally. See you in mid-July. -0-0-0- No new postings for the next couple of weeks. The Midwesterner is taking a s ...
Anonymous's blog Urban food insecurity is one of the crushing issues that plague American cities. It’s a fancy name for food deserts – the vast tracts of inner cities that hold millions of America’s poorest people but lack grocery stores or other sou ...
