Hello, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you out of a job. “Stopping industrial development in the name of ‘environmental justice’ will do nothing to alleviate poor environmental conditions or public health problems in low-income and minority communities,” writes Jonathan Adler in “Intellectual Ammunition” (June/July), published by the Chicago-based Heartland Institute. “However, by erecting the greatest barriers to economic development in those communities with disproportionate minority populations, ‘environmental justice’ has a disparate impact on the people it purports to help.”
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“Chicago generally is too conservative,” opines architect Joseph Valerio in “Focus” (July/August), newsletter of the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects. “Our firm presents different schemes with varying degrees of ‘volume.’ Our clients almost always go for the one turned way up; Chicago needs to do more of that.”
Metaphors we could have lived without. From the summer issue of the “John Marshall Comment”: “She has handled [sexism and anti-Semitism] as if they were bedbugs in the cot of life: unpleasant but natural forces that were to be eradicated as best one could.”
The coyote ate my homework. Northern Illinois University offers an English course held in the Rocky Mountains wilderness, for six credits, called Xtreme Lit (“Northern Today,” July 13).
