In Daley we trust. “For the first time, no outside agency is analyzing the [school] board’s budget,” writes Veronica Anderson in Catalyst (September). “In 1995, the [state] Legislature suspended oversight by the Chicago School Finance Authority. Since then, the Civic Federation, the Chicago Urban League, the Chicago Panel on School Policy and the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform have all dropped their scrutiny.”
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Total number of day-care slots available in Rogers Park, Uptown, and Edgewater, according to a new report, “From Welfare to Worse?,” from the Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning: 3,155. Number on the waiting list of Christopher House in Uptown: more than 1,000. Number of day-care centers open after 6 pm: 0.
Excuse me, I think your tooth just fell into my mouth. “Couples often possess similar dental habits,” we learn from “Dentalnotes” (September), published by the Academy of General Dentistry. “A person with clear dental neglect is 32 times more likely to have a partner with clear neglect.”
What reasons does the supreme court have for striking down Chicago’s antigang loitering ordinance? According to Harvard’s Randall Kennedy, writing in “Intellectualcapital.com,” “The most damning is vagueness. The ordinance utterly fails to specify an objective definition of ‘loitering.’ The justices of the Illinois Supreme Court were correct to insist that the deficiency could put a person at risk for such innocent activities as waiting to hail a taxi or resting on a corner during a job or stepping in a doorway to avoid rain….To paraphrase a Supreme Court ruling from the 1930s, no one should be required at peril of life, liberty or property to speculate at the meaning of a criminal statute.”
