It is natural in this season to think of New York City, but this year I have been thinking of it in a happier light than the 9/11 anniversary casts on it. I had reason to read the interview that banker George W. Bunn, Jr. did before he died in 1973. The Bunn family in […]
James Krohe Jr
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Gwyneth knows
Matt O’Hara, Illinois Natural History Survey, holds a 15-pound silver carp that had jumped into the boat while O’Hara and his crew sampled the Illinois River’s fish populations. PHOTO BY RACHEL WELLS It is satisfying to contemplate that unbridled capitalism might in some cases be harnessed to rectify the damage done by unbridled capitalism. In […]
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Promised lands
James F. and Margaret (Keyes) Reed, who were members of the Donner Party. During four Junes since 1994 I’ve moved to and from Illinois and the West Coast. On that first trip, orange and yellow U-Haul and Penske rental trucks settled on the big roads by the hundreds, like migrating ducks lighting on an interstate […]
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Dense voters
Emily Badger, who covers urban policies for the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, flagged for her readers a recent Wall Street Journal article about how once-Republican inner-ring suburbs of our big cities are turning Democratic. The results, she writes, suggest a larger relationship between population density and politics. In the 2012 election…Dems overwhelmingly have a lock on […]
