Monday, December 29, 2008

Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina

Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.

Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Hanging Paint

Isolation cell by PaecKE.

PaecKE

Lone Star

Chicago's newspapers facing troubled futures

A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned...

Chicago's newspapers facing troubled futures