That’s strike one, Mr. Mayor. Cecelia Clark reports from Cabrini-Green in the “Residents’ Journal” (October): “A reporter asked Daley [at the September 22 opening of the Dominick’s at Division and Clybourn] about the problems with President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Daley said, ‘You may have a problem in a family and you don’t say the entire family is responsible. That’s unfair.’ He was speaking in reference to the Democratic Party. But for me, it was as though a bright light started shining and fireworks were going off. Recently the One Strike rule was put into place. The rule holds public housing leaseholders responsible for their guests and also the actions of each family member.”
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Strike two. “In 1998, while grassroots agencies and organizations have gone unfunded,” writes Johnnie Cole of the Community Workshop on Economic Development, the Chicago Empowerment Zone’s Coordinating Council “has allocated nearly $30 million of Zone funds mostly to city departments or large for-profit businesses without any discernible monitoring or evaluation controls” (“Poverty Issues…Dateline Illinois,” November 16).
“Although the NBA players are still on strike and there are no ‘official’ games, the Virtual NBA Season,” according to its Web site, “will e-mail you a poll consisting of the games that would have been played that day.” Then you can vote for “the teams you think would have won that day’s slate of games”; results and standings will be posted at a designated Web site the following day. “While this won’t replace the real season and real games, you will join people across the internet to keep alive the spirit of the games you won’t be seeing on your home court this season.” Hmmm–could we do that with the Bears’ next two seasons as well?
